I wish there was a refund policy so I could get my money back

Rating: 1/10 (31 January 2015)

I'm speechless for the amount of bullshit they tried to feed the audience with this movie and I am eager to know what order was behind the production of such a sham! I do apologize to the family of Chris Kyle (the real sniper) for writing this review in this tone, I know he was murdered recently and the pain is still fresh but I guess they made themselves ready when they sold the right of making a movie based on the deceased's book. Chris Kyle's book title is "American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History" Autobiography of the most lethal... means the guy was so proud of being the most lethal and in my opinion, whoever is proud of being "The Most Lethal", has serious mental problem, period! So we are not dealing with a hero, we are dealing with a 2 bit bully redneck who was brought up with guns shooting animals he was not going to eat... (I'm not against hunting but I believe if you kill an animal, you have to eat it! If you kill an animal for pure pleasure, you are mentally unstable). The cheesiness of the movie begins with Kyle being touched with seeing the news of bombing US embassy. Its' not pleasant for anyone to hear that a place got bombed and people got killed but his reaction looked like a senator from Senate's foreign affairs committee not a redneck somewhere in Texas. So he decides to sign up. Now what's the real version? He was probably a redneck out of job and options, signed up for military to get the sign up bonus and get his life on track, not heroic but respectable decision. He is being trained as seal. Good for him but even a kid knows that the identity of seals is almost kept secret if not top secret so a seal goes to the bar, drinking and probably speaking about the secrets of the U.S. Navy, that may happen but that is deemed as irresponsible act punishable under martial and even civilian law and I highly suspect that was not how he met his wife. People like to lie about these things and they have years to come up with a glorified version! I wouldn't be surprised if they originally met in a Yahoo! chat room! Now 9/11 happens. Again that senatorish look while seeing the news but I know what is behind that look "Fuck! Now I have to go to war!!!" They go to Iraq. It's war, it's fair game. Americans kill Iraqis. Iraqi's kill American. On the battle field, none are evil, they just follow the orders and its fair game, its just business. No need to mention that USA was on the evil side, invading a country on totally unacceptable pretext! Like those of Hitler's on invading Poland. In Iraq Kyle meets his arch enemy. An Arab sniper who we never know who he was and for the rest of the movie he wants to hunt him down. He will eventually but I suspect that the whole story is fictitious. Kyle was not a hero. He enjoyed killing people as he enjoyed killing bucks, he was probably highly delusional who wrote an autobiography based on his delusions.
Eastwood instead of trying to decipher a sniper's real personality and mix it with some events from the book so he can tell that the movie is based on actual events, decided to make a movies 100% based on Kyle's delusional book and capitalize on it in which he succeeded greatly. He did a great job of depicting the obsolete concept of "Americans are always right and everyone else is evil and stupid" once more! By making this movie he put everyone in difficult situation. Kyle's family now have to hear these harsh word on their beloved decease, a murder suspect may not get impartial trial because of this movie. Who knows? maybe Kyle had some problems, maybe he was murdered while trying to bully a trouble veteran while given his record, no one would have questioned him. He was murdered in 2013 and a movie was made in 2014. Maybe Eastwood taught he was too old and for him its now or never.
Overall an awful one dimensional movie, do not waste you money as I did! I wish there was a refund policy so I could get my money back!