The best movie of 2014

Rating: 10/10 (16 June 2015)

Clint Eastwood's American Sniper is arguably Eastwood's best film I have seen since Million Dollar Baby (2004) as well as his most heartbreaking movie since then that I have seen. Not only is it a heartbreaking story it is also more of an inspirational story about an American hero named Chris Kyle (played by Bradley Cooper in an Oscar nominated performance) an All-American man who lived an unfinished life who was dedicated to the protection of his country and his family and served four tours of duty in Iraq. I have heard a few criticisms of this movie of which I will only talk about one of them which he happens to be a movie critic that I highly respect whose name is Chris Stuckmann and he criticized that movie for not telling enough about Kyle's tours of duty, and for me that is a criticism that I highly disagree with because to me the scenes in the movie in which Kyle goes through his tours of duty is pretty self-explanatory. This is Clint Eastwood's 34th film as a director and one of his awe-inspired best. Even though I didn't finish Kyle's best-selling book of the same name watching this movie made me feel like I did which is one of the reasons why this movie is so good. Also Sienna Miller gave a strong performance in the movie as Chris Kyle's wife Taya, this film should have definitely won a lot more Oscars that it ended up receiving in other words it only won one Oscar which was for best sound editing and for me it also should have won best adapted screenplay, best actor for Bradley Cooper and best picture. Because this movie is a solid reminder that serving your country is always good with bad consequences and as Richard Roeper put it "This movie is a brutal reminder that saying thank you for your service is not enough" and that helping wounded veterans is a great thing to do to bring up a person's spirit of patriotism and a sense of humility.