Clint Eastwood needs to quit

Rating: 1/10 (26 January 2015)

This is the first movie in my life that I walked out of.
American Sniper is the real life story of Chris Kyle, a SEAL in the United States Army. At 84 years old, Clint Eastwood has proved once again that he should not be directing nor doing anything in the film industry anymore.
The movie travels through Chris Kyle's four tours to the middle east, played by Bradley Cooper. He stares off into the distance a lot and doesn't say much of anything useful. He does of course say those basic one liners like calling Iraqis "savages" and all the other army characters like to say "die mother-f*****".
It felt like a bad video game. The characters had no personalities, the storyline was as plain as could be, there was propaganda everywhere, and it repeated the same shot of Bradley Cooper shooting his sniper rifle over and over and over.
I thought they accidentally showed the first cut of the movie because the special effects were so awful to the point where I felt insulted that they thought people would buy that. Calling it early 90's CGI would be a compliment. There was a couple scenes where they CLEARLY were using a prop baby as a baby. In an especially tense scene they liquefied its little baby hand to look like it had life and movement. To laugh at such a pivotal moment is frustrating to me as an audience member and shocking that such an experienced director would make a choice like that.
This movie did not advance filmmaking in any way, except hopefully flushing out those Iraqi war movies once and for all. Clint Eastwood's last good movie was made in 1992 yet he keeps making movies because they make money and he's still alive. Unfortunately I can only control one of the two and next time I'll choose not to give him any more of my money.