Disgustingly outrageous propaganda at it's Murican best.

Rating: 1/10 (1 July 2015)

This is going to be a short review, and for the vast majority it shows exactly how this movie made me feel. That aside, if you were to look at the cinema photography, acting, and generally legitimately well produced and editing properties of the film, then there are some good things to say, but few.
The story is just flagrant propaganda probably designed to boost recruitment rates, and further instill ill feeling towards the people in the middle east. I genuinely found the dialogue and theme of the actions to be distasteful, racist, ignorant and on the verge of xenophobic. And all this ultimately coming from a highly accoladed director and actor Clint Eastwood, who;s future films, i have a strong desire to deliberately avoid in the future, now knowing where his political attitudes lie. I also have to say how deeply disappointed in, who is clearly a talented and intelligent actor, Bradley Cooper for even entertaining the idea of assuming such a role. In essence, if you have a mind, and wish to investigate further into the main protagonists past, and the actual lives of the people in the country where this film/story is set, i would hope that similar conclusion would be met.
All that being said,and sweeping all political connotations to the side, the movie does go far in accurately portraying the horrors and fears that the troops on the ground had to deal with on a daily basis, which were clearly something that is hard for the vast majority of people who have not experienced combat to remotely begin to understand. And the longer lasting after effects of their experiences, and how they manifest when they get home. "Lions, led by donkeys"