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Rating: 10/10 (22 February 2015)

What is with all these negative reviews? I wonder if half of the reviewers even saw the movie or if they were paid to do a cheap shot micro-job here. Contrary to some of the reviews, I did not see how this movie glorified a man as a murderer. Didn't anyone see the uncertainty and anguish at times when our sniper had to do his job as a soldier? Did anyone notice his shift in attitude ending in a desire to go home? Did anyone see him shoot someone who was not trying to kill American soldiers? Do those bashing this movie remember the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein? We went to war with Iraq because we were aiding an ally and pushing his army out of Kuwait and back to Baghdad when diplomacy failed. Iraq was harboring Osama bin-Laden who orchestrated the 9/11 attacks on the US. Like it or not, the US felt justified in pushing into Iraq and looking for bin-Laden.
The negative critics want this movie to be about politics and murder when its a movie about one patriotic man who loved his country and was not afraid to die to keep terrorists off our soil. He was a man doing a job. The job was protecting his fellow soldiers from the enemy. It is a job well played by Bradley Cooper. I believe most soldier will tell you that they go to war for their country but they fight for their buddies. Chris Kyle did his job to protect his buddies and paid the price with PTSD-like symptoms. He was doing a job created by politicians. In the movie, many referred to him as a hero, but the character never felt that way about himself. If you don't like what he had to do, don't elect people who create the job for men like him.
I enjoyed this movie because it tells the story of how a man came to be the best at job that few can do and the heavy price he paid for that job. Is it historically accurate? Name a movie that doesn't take liberties. Does it tell Chris Kyle's whole story? Of course not, how do you boil down 38 years into two hours? This movie focuses on the pressures, pains and consequences of being an American Sniper. That's what this movie is about and Clint Eastwood did a masterful job making this a movie about the business of war which is never pleasant or pretty but is always necessary thanks to the human condition.