Remarkable film.

Rating: 9/10 (19 May 2017)

As perhaps the most accomplished marksman in US military history, Chris Kyle's experience of war is very unusual:it's an "endless extreme close-up". The film is suspenseful and emotional, it makes very interesting parallels between Chris' private life and his life as a soldier who has to kill children and women. I do think that the whole question of the film is: "is Chris Kyle a hero?". Indeed, he could be considered as a hero because he kills human bombs which would have killed many people in return... But can we really consider someone as a hero if he kills children? I believe that Clint Eastwood, through American Sniper, does not really give an answer to it, he just leads us to think about it... which is even more interesting and difficult.