mindless horrible

Rating: 1/10 (29 January 2015)

Struck by a vast amount of ignorance, boy, it did cost me to watch this movie until the end. How is it possible that the main character, a mass murderer, is portrayed as a national hero? I mean, this is a kind of realistic Iraq war environment, a story based on memoirs, not a SF movie. Incredible that this movie follows the same simpletons way of 'thinking' that led to the very war, repeated behaviour that in fact contributed hugely to current Muslim hate and terrorism all over the world. How can it be so uncritically blind? It represents a macho wicked-Christian extreme right white dominant autistic oversimplified view of the world. No questions raised between 9/11 and the attack on Iraq, a country which had nothing to do with 9/11 whatsoever. No, our hero marches on to kill the "savages" (all Iraqis, who didn't ask for an American invasion), because it is his patriotic and religious duty and honor. Well, we evolved from apes a long time ago, but Clint Eastwood is still in denial... still the cowboy who believes the Indians are wild godless people who we should exterminate, and proud of it. So actually I should give the movie 10 points instead of 1 as it is very instructive, it shows us the way of (non) thinking which led to so much destruction and turmoil. O sorry, I didn't mention his cliché family yet, a sobbing wife, indoctrinated child and the sniper trauma. Well, I fear the movie will be praised by no few people who possess the same quality as the movie: mindless. So 1 point (0 is not available, alas).