A powerful tale (easily misunderstood maybe?)

Rating: 8/10 (2 February 2015)

The evil people do is the same everywhere. Occasionally people want to do something about it. To try to stop it, or lessen it at least. Chris Kyle seemed to be one of those people.
He didn't like to kill people. It was a (job) he considered important in order to protect other people. And this isn't a story about the rights and wrongs of war. It's a story about Chris Kyle's role in a war.
Bradley Cooper was at times unrecognisable, (as was Sienna Miller). And all the better a film for it. Bradley Cooper was Chris Kyle. It was an outstanding performance.
There do seem to be flaws in the film; things in hindsight you might change, but what do I know. I'm only guessing. Some people (who were actually there) might say 'no flaws', 'that's how it was', 'that's how it went down'. To view the horror that unfolds on the silver screen is enough to know, accurate or not, that Chris Kyle was a brave man, and this film seems like a deserving testament to that.