A big load of pro-war propaganda

Rating: 2/10 (25 January 2015)

The amount of pro-war American propaganda turns this technically well- directed and well-acted movie into something really hard to watch.
Instead of having a critical and unbiased view (see Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of our Fathers), the director uses the old dichotomy good vs evil to describe a reality that is in fact very complex. The result is a very superficial movie with banal dialogues that glorifies not only the life of a soldier in a way that reminds WW2 war propaganda, but also war in general. It could have been a great movie about the job of the sniper or about post-traumatic stress disorder, but these topics are just superficially sketched. On a side note I'm really worried about the fact that in 2015 most people can't recognize war propaganda when they see it.