Posted on 01/16/2015 2:20:51 PM PST by mojito
In director Clint Eastwood’s best films (“Gran Torino,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Unforgiven,” “The Outlaw Josey Wales”), the multiple Oscar-winner is able to make us feel both the righteousness of justified violence and the heavy emotional price paid by those committing it. “American Sniper,” which is undoubtedly Eastwood’s best picture since “Million Dollar Baby” (2004), and might just be his best since “Unforgiven” (1992), faithfully constructs and respectfully deconstructs “The Legend”: Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in the history of the U.S. Military.
“American Sniper” opens during the worst days of Fallujah in Iraq. Kyle (Bradley Cooper) is the eye in the sky watching his fellow warriors through a sniper scope and protecting them when necessary with the kind of precision shooting that will quickly make him a legend (and target).
Through a door, an Iraqi woman emerges with a boy who can’t be older than 10. They walk towards a group of Marines. She hands the boy a large grenade. Kyle has been told by his superiors that what happens next is his call.
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I'm excited to see this.
Read the book a couple weeks ago.
Saw the movie last night.
2 thumbs up.
Appreciate that comment.
I read the book a few months ago and was wondering about the movie.
Great to hear...can’t wait to see it!
2 thumbs up. If I had more thumbs, they’d be up too. Balled like a damned baby through a lot of it...specially every time he came home or went back, and certainly @ the end. God bless the Kyle family.
And good on Bradley Cooper for such a great performance!
Wow. Great review. And with this kind of movie, I’m not sure if there’s such a thing as a spoiler.
The review starts out with a Muslim mother, a ten-year-old kid and a grenade. The obvious question is, does a sniper shoot a ten-year-old kid to stop him from killing his fellow troops?
I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I’ll give my own answer to that question.
Yes. The kid is going to die anyway, blown up by a grenade given him by his heartless mother. And take a bunch of American troops with him, thus becoming a killer, as well as a dead kid. Therefore, shooting him first is fully justifiable.
My brother and I will be seated in 1 hour.
I think Cooper is one of the good guys. He started out as a trekker on the Lonely Planet travel series.
Cooper did a downright amazing job...I can only imagine what it took. Best Actor, far as I’m concerned.
Couple hours from now: "Got something in my eye..."
=D
I’m looking forward to it.
Of course he shoots. A 10-year-old with a grenade is just as deadly as a 20-year-old with a grenade. And stupid barbarian spawn is just as worthless as their adult counterparts.
Haven’t seen it yet. Eddie Redmayne and Benedict Cumberbatch were great.
Michael Medved rates it as the best picture of the year.
It is heartwarming to see that the donkey is unhurt.
Those camel jockey’s didn’t have a chance.
Saw it this afternoon. Powerful and pro-American (for a change from Hollywood).
Makes the purpose of the war clear and has no problem calling Muzzies ‘savages.’
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