I want my 2+ hours and $8 back please

Rating: 1/10 (6 February 2015)

I begin by calling out all the dbag bleeding hearts who posted and slammed this movie exclusively for the reason of its supposed portrayal/depiction of killing innocent women and children. Its unadvised, but if you choose to watch the movie and your IQ is north of 60 you'll see why their statements are so ridiculous. In the real world in war, yes there is awful collateral death. Now about the show - I haven't waited for a movie with as much anticipation as I did for American Sniper in I think forever. A sniper movie! A sniper movie about the best sniper in US military history! Couldn't wait! Every guy thinks the occupation of a SEAL sniper is about as cool as it gets. The film started out very slow with its characterization, but finally we're of to SEAL training and I use "training" loosely (not at all how SEAL selection and training works. You don't just walk into a military recruiting office and sign up for SEAL school lmao). I let that go with a pass. Just poor continuity and research. But the SEAL training scenes were horrific. It's when I knew the next hour and a half would undoubtedly be awful. It's probably easier to make it in the NFL as a starting QB then make it to SEAL school. I've seen documentaries on it and it looked horrendous what these men endured. I won't be a spoiler on the specifics of the scenes, but Clint could have made that part of the movie so much better. It could have been awesome rather than silly, unrealistic and boring. It bordered on an insult to the Navy. To wrap the rest of the movie up, it just sucked HARD. You know those movies that don't end the way you want? Like in Heat? That's the way virtually EVERY SINGLE action scene in the movie ends. I also roughly counted only about 4 sniper scenes. The rest of the movie was poorly choreographed action scenes (just a few) or him fighting with his wife (explaining time and again to her basically the same thing just in a different 11 paragraphs (in bad southern accent) "I'm doing it for my country"). If you're not looking for your traditional war movie e.g., Saving Private Ryan or Platoon, but are instead interested to watch a poorly scripted drama/romance chick flick mixed with the depression of a "Tuesdays with Morrie" type movie, but also want the sound of very occasional gun fire, then run to see American Sniper. Or..you could achieve the same dopamine reaction by playing $5 worth of Buck Hunter at your local bar, go start an unreasonable fight with your girl (just walk right up to her and tell her she needs to lose 40 lbs), staple your genitals with a staple gun used to put up Christmas lights, then go to a dog shelter and walk up and down the cages for 2 hours.