Misses the mark

Rating: 1/10 (27 May 2015)

Mr Eastwood's attempt at rewriting history and trying to legitimise the illegal invasion of Iraq.
The hero is a one dimensional Captain America who is never challenged. If he decides to do something, he does it. He never misses his target, protects his brother at school, decides to become a navy SEAL so does, just like that. We are shown some brief scenes of muscle bound men being doused with water but again, at no stage is there any depth or exploration of the cardboard characters or chance of failure. Our hero decides to pick up the leading lady in the bar, again, succeeding where other's have failed.
Then it's off to Iraq to fight, wait for it, Al Qaeda.
Based on the 9/11 Commission report, there were no Al Qaeda in Iraq before the illegal U.S. Invasion of Iraq. They came much later. Clinton Eastwood conveniently tells us all the Iraqis ARE Al Qaeda, a blatant lie.
There is an endless supply of Iraqi sniper fodder with a spider man like enemy sniper who jumps from roof to roof, able to catch up to the U.S. troops in humvees. These Iraqis show no fear or feelings and could just as well be mindless zombies.
At the end the U.S. Troops move around on top of a roof in plain view of the enemy sniper who somehow can't see them, but a little later our hero can see him. Then we have our hero talking to his wife on his sat phone while being overrun. While everyone else is shooting, he is talking to his wife! So very unrealistic.
I used to think a Clint Eastwood movie would always be good. I didn't expect it could be this bad.