Good movie with a TERRIBLE ending.

Rating: 6/10 (13 January 2015)

Clint Eastwood (Dirty Harry) directs the true story of Chris Kyle, touted as "the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history." Bradley Cooper plays Kyle, an average every man who after watching the terrorist attacks on the twin towers decides to sign up for the Marines. He is told he should try his hands at being a Navy Seal, which he passes with flying colors and becomes a sniper for the group. Sienna Miller (Layer Cake) plays Coopers wife, Taya. Miller does an excellent job as the no nonsense but loving housewife. I enjoyed American Sniper for the most part; it was interesting seeing Kyle return home to the mundane and adapting to family life after being told that he has had 160 confirmed kills. Having said that, there were a few eye rolling, hoorah, cliché moments but that's to be expected in most military movies. My biggest gripe was the absolutely TERRIBLE ending. It literally comes out of nowhere and feels rushed. Coming down to a simple text on the screen explaining what happened to Kyle. It's almost as if Eastwood forgot that a movie was supposed to have an ending and quickly threw something together. An ending for me can make or break a movie; this ending goes down as one of the worst for a major motion picture.