It is not a political movie!

Rating: 8/10 (23 January 2015)

I am not in favor of the American military involvement in Iraq and I could easily criticize this movie for picturing American soldiers killing innocent Iraqi people and conducting an illegal war with all the propagandistic heroism and patriotism that comes with it. But in my mind this movie is not about any political issues.
I liked this movie because it's a very well made biopic of an American guy who, for some reason, made a choice to join the war and his struggle in dealing with his choice. A struggle that most of us are probably unfamiliar with but which apparently should be very familiar to a lot of men who made the same choice of becoming a soldier. Especially the way the movie pictures his struggle in dealing with the difference in fighting and killing in Iraq and then returning home and having to be a normal father again in a surreal peaceful world, is very impressive.
You could probably make exactly the same kind of movie about an Iraqi sniper!