Am I Supposed to Care for this Guy?

Rating: Null/10 (26 November 2018)

My review for this film is not even going to revolve around my opinion on the real life Chris Kyle. Yes, he has said some horrible things, but that is not what my four stars are for. My four stars are for how horribly propaganda-filled this horrendous patriotic film is. Wow,I have never seen such a black and white picture view of any type of war in the first place. Didn't you all know that every single individual in Iraq is a terrorist, while every American is a pure saint? There are no grey lines here, because once you are in Iraq, every child, mother, and father is going to have a bomb strapped to them, at least according to this film.
I also disliked how perfect Chris Kyle was portrayed in this film. Why is he so perfect? I mean I get it, his wife has so many struggles with him, but even when he is back at home, he happens to run into former veterans who praise him for being a war hero. Chris Kyle (portrayed by Bradley Cooper) was just awful, I'm sorry. He triggered me to no end. I also just love how he goes from cowboy to army man in what feels like seconds, all because of a news story on the TV. "Look what they did to us," says Chris, the savior, Kyle. And then he joins the war, nice job!
Also, I now it's a biopic, but the integration of his relationship was just bad. They had no chemistry until the last 20 minutes of the film. It was so laughable. The fact that this girl would fall in love with an ignorant, self-centered (and yes, him wanting to help others over his own family is self centered) person triggered me. This overly patriotic man has such a black and white picture of the world. It's America against the world, right??????? But yeah, the relationship was stupid and unrealistic.
Also, the editing was atrocious and laughable. The passage of time in this film was so horribly done that I began to lose track of where we were in the story. The story goes from him being a cowboy, to him being in the army, to him impregnating his new wife, to him having a son, to him on his second tour, to him holding his newborn daughter, to him coming home yet again in like 30 minutes. It's so unbelievably stupid! And the editing will go from him shooting at a range to him kissing his wife to him at army training to him then having a kid. Like what was even going on? I understand the film is long already but couldn't we get some time to embrace some of the emotions?
The action sequences were boring too. Some guy on IMDB described the film as a feature length version of the short Nazi propaganda sniper film found in Inglorious Basterds. This film was just so repetitive in the action, that I honestly could not even take it. I really didn't care about anybody who died and I didn't really feel any tension, except when kids were about to get shot or when bullets ricochet to people's faces.
My final complaint, among many, is the use of a doll instead of a real life baby during a scene between Chris Kyle and his wife. It was so obvious it was a baby, and when they were handing the baby off to each other, it looks goofy as heck. I have never seen something look so fake. It looked like they were carrying some Baby 🍼 👶 Alive doll. If you can't accord a baby, why even include it?
Also, when they got married, they announced Mr and Mrs. Chris Kyle??? What the heck? Is the wife's name Chris?
Anyways, why do I give this film 4 stars instead of 1? Well, surprisingly enough, I found the last 20 minutes of the film to be surprisingly genuine and good. The wife and the husband had some chemistry, finally. I actually loved seeing Chris Kyle doing everything his wife has been begging for his him to do all of this wife. I loved seeing him finally have some intersection with his kids. It was honestly kind of beautiful. And the final scene and credits makes me wish the film developed so much more of that throughout the rest of the film. It was so good and emotional.
To sum things up, I enjoyed the last 20 minutes of the film, and the rest just was laughably patriotic and just pandering. Boo! For anybody that wants to actually enjoy your main character, watch Kyle's fourth tour and on. You might actually not be bored and start to care.
Honestly, what was Clint Eastwood thinking with this film? Wow.