Over-hyped and Poorly Written

Rating: 4/10 (16 January 2015)

This has to be one of if not Clint Eastwood's worst films to date. It is tawdry and blatantly inauthentic. The movie sensationalized and falsifies certain aspects of Chis Kyle's book so to embellish the emotional aspect of war and a man supposedly fighting for what he thinks is just.
I found this movie subtly jingoistic and it never once depicted Chris Kyle as a man addicted to killing. Hell, he even boasted about his kills, and thought that Iraqi people were savages. He's been quoted saying, "ill kill anyone who wears a turban."
In his book he claimed to kill looters during Hurricane Katrina. He lied about quite a few things actually. But...just the fact that he pretended to kill civilians after the hurricane down in New Orleans, doesn't speak highly of this man.
Nevertheless, the real Chris Kyle is a sadist who openly says that he enjoys killing. This movie is a whitewash of one of the most brutal chapters in American military history, an attempt to pretend this guy, a symbol of the sick brutality of our occupations of other countries, and pretend that he is some normal guy, struggling against the emotional baggage of being a pro killer when he wasn't.
Moreover, the movies plot was disjointed, the acting excluding Bradley Cooper was sub par, especially from the wife. The photography and frames were inconsistent, and the CGI was absolutely appalling and looked to be a video game at times.
The wartime / back at home flip-flop approach feels sort of modular and clunky and at times confusing. Also, the respites were quite redundant with Chris Kyle's wife and at times inauthentic, especially during a seemingly pivotal scene in the movie where a stage baby is used. This alone shows laziness.
If not for the graphic sensationalized violence one might think this is a sub par network TV movie, the script was that terrible.
Overall, I had high expectations for this movie and it quite literally felt like I was watching a propaganda film. I expected better from Clint.