A PAINFULLY Awful Navy Recruiting Film

Rating: 1/10 (11 February 2015)

Let's get one thing out of the way before I begin my review. I did NOT pay to see this film. I downloaded a copy of an Academy Awards preview disk. Many thanks to the housekeeper who intercepted this disk in the mailbox of some Academy reviewer. As is often the case, you saved me ten bucks I would have paid had I mistakenly chosen to see this stinker film in a theater.
American sniper is little more than a film that will, regrettably, encourage many young men whose lives have been stunted by the effects of the Great Recession in to join up with the military. No doubt, thousands of kids for whom the most promising job prospects include "would you like fries with that" will enlist in the travesty against humanity that our military has become.
In some ways, American Sniper is quite accurate. Our soldiers often DO act like mafia thugs who break down your door, rough up your family, and kill you if you don't cough up the requested military intelligence info. Yes, our Army in the 21st century, is little more than a thuggish collection of leg-breakers and hit men. They care not in the least that you are innocent or guilty of anything. You are not American, so your stupid A-rab ways are a target of scorn, and we have the god given right to extinguish your life as we would a cockroach's's.
This truly sickens me. Every time I saw a depiction of violence against civilians in this film, I again wondered why GWB, Dick Cheeny, and Donald Rumsfeld had not been arrested for crimes against humanity. If I EVER had any reason to question why America is so hated in so many parts of the globe, this movie answered all of my questions.
As to the film's production value, editing, and scripting, I found myself laughing at some of the dumbest dialog ever given voice in a motion picture. You'd have to examine the scripts of such Hollywood "gems" as Porkeys, and The Hollywood Knights, to find such trite, adolescent dialog. The banality of it left me speechless (though sadly the same cannot be said of the actors.).