A polarizing movie

Rating: 7/10 (22 February 2015)

Regardless of how closely the movie follows the "true" life story of Chris Kyle, it is obvious from the reviews that it is very polarizing. Having read a number of the negative reviews, people that do not agree with the U.S. involvement in the middle eastern conflicts must be very capable of ignoring the atrocities of Muslim upon Muslim to actually believe that some of the atrocities depicted in the movie could not have happened. What do the recent events in Paris along with the continual suicide bombings using any gender and age for bombers tell you? The movie did not depict Kyle as a classic hero but as a killer in a time where no one knows how the next killer will be dressed, where the attack will be carried out, and that there is little hope that any ruling group will ever come to any peace talks.
This is the world we live in now. This movie doesn't deny it or change it, and it doesn't glorify the effects these prolonged conflicts have on the returning veterans, but it also doesn't try to analyze that side of it because that is left to the viewers to sort out. It is sad to see that the negative reviewers seem to want the movie to hand them a definitive argument against any response to the current worldwide conflict between various religious, political and economic factions that are not clearly defined by governments and borders.
The movie allows the viewer to figure it out, if capable. Sadly most don't want to.