Not too bad but, not good at all even tried to watch the 2nd time

Rating: Null/10 (7 January 2015)

Update 3/17/19 after the 2nd time viewing:
Would still maintain my early review when the movie was released. I've also found the directing, the screenplay and editing still sucked big time! How the sniper would like to have a blabber to be his spotter? A spotter is the extra eyes for the sniper to help him spot some target he may or may not find quickly or soon enough. The spotter should be as alert and focused as the sniper in the combat zone as well as the killing zone. Yet this sniper's spotter couldn't keep his mouth shut, he didn't pay any attention to where the sniper focus, he just laid on his back and kept blabbing, running his mouth off.
Then, a sniper when working under the blazing sun, all things around him were so bright, yet this sniper didn't use his cap to cast a shade for his eyes, but wore his baseball hat reversed. The sniper when positioned himself under the blazing sun, he at least should put some black tar paint under his both eyes, just like the football players, to reduce the flare of the sunlight reflecting up into his eyes. Yet this sniper neither used his baseball hat's visor used for blocking sunlight from the eyes, nor applied black tar paint under his eyes. With the excruciating Middle East sunlight, he might lose his eyesights pretty soon. Yet he just did the shootings like nothing happened. What a joke!
Then just during the nanosecond before the shooting, the camera ridiculously shifted back to his boyhood, shooting deer, sitting in the church, stealing a mini-bible, helped his kid brother beating up the bully at school.....on and on, the craps simply couldn't stop. Why, because if just tried to tell this sniper's military killing records, there might not enough footage for this lame movie, so lot of unnecessary craps had to kept adding up to prolong the movie time.
If you want to know why people always cursed by saying: "A loaded crap!" Just watch this movie, and you'd understand immediately.
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I got a very mixed feeling when watching this film. i got an impression that the screenplay is kinda a patchwork, the playwright did not quite really understand the life story of this sniper, and there's not too much to tell, so the guys who wrote the script had to use lot of flashbacks and to fill up the empty spaces. the whole movie didn't give the audiences a present, an uptodate current feeling, but just a poorly assembled tidbits of this sniper, his simplified boyhood, his cowboy period, his finding about the first girlfriend cheating on him, and in between the trainings after he joined the navy seal, meeting the love of his life in a bar, then became serious and then married her.
There's nothing well-developed almost on anything about this guy's back-then storyline, just some superfluous jumping-around meaningless dots. i also noticed that navy seal's sniper training a bit shallow, those guys lied on their bellies, recoiled and moved their bodies by every shot, and that's not good to show a really good sniper would reacted during and after every shot.
The other thing i like to point out is the formulaic and popular sound track, the loud and huge vibrating sound during his sniping mission. those loud ooooommmm sounds were also became so popular in movies such as 'gravity', 'preditor', 'alien', 'intersteller', 'star wars', but using it in this film only sounded more inappropriate and ridiculous, since when a sniper doing his jobs, his mind would be totally zoned out of any sound and noise around him, if those loud booming sound were used to describe his on-site mind condition, he wouldn't be possible to shoot a target, yet this loud out-space sound would appear in every scene of his shooting, and it's stupid. a sniper used a satellite phone talking to his wife during the mission? a sniper never stopped involving small talks or joking around with his team mates during the missions? the American soldiers always shooting blindly to all general directions where the sniper already long gone, these American soldiers were only showed their arrongance, poor training, naievity all the time. those stupid yada yada annoying dialog, unnecessary wedding, funeral and hospital visiting at the nursery, the v.a. hospital, the arguments in bed with his wife....all and all, just formulaic unnecessary scenes that usually dominated in mediocre movies. Mr. Eastwood just did a mediocre directing job in this mediocre film, a poorly patch-up shallow work that didn't bring me deeply enough to be moved and only turned me into a bystander. the more i watched it, the less star i would give to this film.