Not only a patriotic story

Rating: 7/10 (22 January 2015)

I had very confused expectations about this movie: I adore Clint Eastwood but his late films (Hereafter and J. Edgar) didn't make me fully satisfied. I adore Bradley Cooper too, because I think that he was a surprise in this last years. Despite this the war is not my favorite theme for a movie. Technically "American sniper" is a beautiful movie: I appreciated the shoots, the close-up on the wonderful, expressive eyes of Cooper, the sound effects, the scene in the middle of the sandstorm. Knowing the political thinking of the director, my fear was to see an ode to the war. It isn't. It is a truthful portrait of a man with questionable values. Not a mere story of patriotic ideals.