Killing machine made into a hero

Rating: 1/10 (25 February 2015)

I was very reluctant to see this movie, but then decided that I should see it because it is so popular. I liked some of Eastwood movies and did not like this one. It was just one killing after the other.
I did not pay for it. Thanks for that. I did not enjoy the movie, I do not enjoy watching people killing other people. I did not enjoy the implication that this war was okay and what the US did over there was okay. There are these millions of Nazi films showing how effective the German military was. Does that make it right?Should we glorify certain Nazis because they were good at what they were doing?
Obviously Clint Eastwood as director and Bradley Cooper as producer and star knew exactly which trigger points to use to get the average non-thinking American to get into the movie theater and like this movie.. While we are now dealing with thousands mental and bodily cripples in this country due to this war , this guy obviously got over his killing spree without problems. The number of disabled veterans has jumped by 25 percent since 2001 _ to 2.9 million _ and the cause really is no mystery. And as we are hearing in the news a lot of the Veterans seeking help get ignored by the authorities. While the companies who were working as non military support in these wars made a killing financially. I would have applauded this movie if it would have shown much more how the life of these soldiers who signed up for these wars, was destroyed by it. How the life of the soldier's families got ruined by killed or disabled family members who served.
There was no reason for this war in the first place and we all have to live with the consequences for the next decades. This is why so many veterans commit suicide, this is why we have veterans running amok with PTSD or just drop out of regular life. In former wars like the WWs for example, everybody had to serve and when they came back all of them had the same experience. In these wars with the voluntary army you have a few who have to carry the burden and are deployed over and over again until they are mentally or bodily destroyed.
Military is brainwashing. Brainwashing somebody to become a killing machine without thinking. Just following orders. Will that ever stop?