serial killer or soldier?

Rating: 1/10 (21 January 2015)

Firstly why do Hollywood insist on "American" being in the title of all its films about Americans? Is the world so full of the eternally stupid that it needs pointing out the obvious? As for this depiction of Chris Kyle ex SEAL and "American sniper" be prepared to be shocked and I am not talking about the trauma of soldiering. Clint Eastwood is a modern day propaganda emperor and master of spin and when you peer through the patriotic veil and through the facade of idealistic America we have a story of an uncompromising sadistic killer who has no remorse for any of the victims. If you take Kyle's statistics along with the Navy's we are looking at a figure of 166 to over 250 kills in a 1,000 days in Iraq across four tours. This means every fourth day or less a person which was man, woman or child was killed. We are all supposed to accept that every person killed was an insurgent ready and armed and in the process of murdering an American soldier. This statistic is absolutely questionable and at no point in American society has this been addressed. On the contrary Kyle is lauded as a sword of American value and freedom at the expense of the savage Iraqi people. The saddest fact is that History is wrote by the victors and the victors are not as honourable and noble and forthright as Hollywood will have us believe. if you like lots of Hollywood sugary moments of perfection with lots of ooohhh aaahhhs and unbelievable heroics then it's a go.... It's ironic that Chris Kyle himself dies from an unexpected bullet going about his normal everyday life.