American Sniper, Is Chris A Hero?

Rating: 9/10 (14 March 2015)

The movie, American Sniper, has many aspects in it that make it great. Many people say that Chris Kyle was not a great man and that he did not do great things. No matter his personal background, in the movie we get to see all of the lives that he saves to the specific skill sets that he decided that he should put to a better use. The movie itself has a wide variety of battle scenes from intense fire fights that keep you on the edge of your seat to long range battles between Chris and his counterpart on the enemy side.
Chris is fantastic in war but the turmoil that he has with his family is a main focal point of the whole movie. In one of the scenes Chris gets home and does not even go straight to his family but instead straight to the bar. His wife calls and he tells her that he is home and needs some time to clear his head before he comes home. It takes Chris a while to realize that he is tearing his family apart. His inner turmoil is that he could not a save enough guys while he was overseas. Sure, he killed a lot of the enemy, but to him that does not make up for all the men that got lost or hurt while he was over there.
One final thing I want to say about the film is that it did leave out a lot of good scenes that could have made the movie better. They could have easily made this a better movie even if they had to make it into a two part movie or a three hour movie. A perfect example of this is towards the end of the movie in his last tour of duty he gets left behind in a sand storm and all you know is he gets rescued and that is all. There is no story behind how it happened or anything and it could help make the movie a little more interesting instead of jumping around as often as the movie did.
In all American Sniper was a fantastic movie and I think everyone should go see it. It shows how brave our men and women were during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and how much they all gave up in the process. It also shows how much heroism can be displayed by not just one man, but by all of our servicemen and women when they work together towards a certain goal and purpose.