Definitely one of my top 15 favorite films.

Rating: 8/10 (27 January 2015)

I caught American Sniper during a 2 week trip to San Diego, CA, and during a weekend off from work I ventured to an early matinée to catch the film and as I sat through this picture I felt the intensity when Chris had to kill the 1st child, and the emotions he was was going through when being state side made me feel more compassion for the service men and women who have been fighting four the freedom of Americans.
I am not a member of the armed services but have a huge amount of respect that they risk their lives to allow me to be the a-hole I am on a day to day basis. While this movie isn't without flaws, It did it's job and that is the end goal with every drama production.
As far as flaws, I felt some of the editing was frantic, maybe too frantic for a dramatic production, and I am not talking about scenes of conflict, I am discussing scenes between Taya and Chris.
However, the performances were pretty solid, Bradley did a fantastic job, I knew when I first caught him on the Wedding Crashers he would go places. Sienna Miller also gave a good performance as Taya and her conflict of love for Chris and understand his on-coming PTSD and love for his brothers in arms.
All in all I gave the film an 8 out of 10. While it put it in my top 15 films, I do not give films 10 ratings any longer on IMDb, since a lot of 10 votes are never counted by the site. For me an excellent film is a 9 and while I did find some flaws that irked me which lowered it one point, i still highly recommend this film.