Killing kills

Rating: 4/10 (4 June 2015)

Hi,
I am just gonna begin with an excerpt of a review found here =
"I don't give a flying crap about anybody's politics when it comes to making movies. If they're great films, they're great films period. I've been in the film Industry for 33 years and I was deeply impressed with Eastwood's take on a story of constant moral dilemma, vs Patriotic duty.
Here's a guy that was motivated to defend our world and country against Psychotic Terrorists killing innocent people all over the world...while living on the edge of fatherhood. The inner conflict and balance of creating such a powerful reality, was right on the money."
So, with all due respect, there is already a contradiction, a big one, in this review. So the first idea is that movies are great beyond politics. The second idea is... political!
America is SO egotistical. What is shown in this movie is NOT reality. Are Americans still able to realize that? Or not? Hello, does anybody not find it strange that almost all Arabic people seem evil? So what? Arabic people are genetically bad?
From beginning to end of this movie, while I was seeing the American guys having trouble with warmth, I was thinking : "What are you doing there? Doesn't that give you a hint that you have nothing to be doing there? What on earth are you doing in another country, blowing houses, and terrorizing people?"
No, that is absolutely normal. Of course, if they have been hurt, they can hurt. That is the pivot key of Americans security system. Oh no, it is bigger than that : if they can be hurt, they can hurt. So they can hurt you even when you have not yet hurt them. Isn't that great?
But why on earth do they kill people that they could shoot in the leg and then make prisoners? Tell me why. Why US people who are so overarmed need to kill a human target, even when they're like ten on that human target ? Pleasure to kill, maybe?
And why on earth does that movie just shows embassies attack and 9/11? Why doesn't it give a much more realistic representation on what happened between America and Arabic countries for ... let's say 50 years? In order to give the viewer a closer idea of what really gets America in Arabic countries and on how America is not just a victim of Psychotic Terrorists.
And why is there so little shown about the family of the child who has been killed? What will happen to her? Why not show what is happening for the Arabic people that have to live in hell all the time? They don't get times off tours... They're hurt in their houses...
It indeed seemed to me in this movie as if the life of an American person was worth more than the lifes of the Iraqi persons. At least this movie shows that idea, that I am sure some Americans share, clearly. What is not clear is : does the director feel that way too, or does he just show the awful ego of the US Army??
For instance, when the 'hero' talks to the family of the child who later is killed, doesn't that make sense to immediately protect the family? Oh no, let's check it out and we'll come back later after everybody had the time to come see that family. Hein?
Does the US Army really work that way? I mean, really, this movie is not a good publicity for the US Army. It really doesn't look like very strategic. Big egos, big tits.
I strongly advice you to watch another war movie : Good Kill. Yes, true, that last movie is not spectacular. But hello, that is a war movie. We're not supposed to have fun watching a war movie, it would be a little bit perverse, wouldn't it?
I don't want to watch an exciting war movie, a riveting war movie, a jack-ass war movie. War movies can only exist us to teach us what the end of this movie teaches us well if we care to listen : killing kills.
That is the only good point of that story, actually of the real one, but it is not really a good point, it is just sadly the flat truth : killing kills.
And America with her right to bear arms and her death penalties is a top leader in the world about this.