Way better than the book

Rating: 10/10 (21 January 2015)

I not sure how I stumbled on the book, but I listened to it a few months before Chris Kyles death in 2013. I liked the book, but I would certainly not rank it in any top ten list. Since then I have learned a lot more about his life after the war including the help he gave other soldiers with PTSD that ultimately cost him his life. The movie gave a much better depiction of how Chris Kyle changed and developed as a person over his life that you could ever get from the book. I read somewhere that the screenwriter used many sources outside of the book to develop the script and I believe it. This is an absolute must see movie if you can handle the obvious violence that comes with modern day war movies. It grips you from the opening seen to the solemn ending. I am from Minnesota so I must add - shame on you Jesse Ventura.