Overrated "Hoo-yah" American Nationalist Patriotism, REEKING of Agenda
What a *beep* movie! Love Brad Cooper, but the writing sucks. And it's like traitors George Bush, Dick Cheney and their uber-wealthy "Oiligarch" greedmeisters spewing more disinfo false pride patriotism to con young men into giving their lives for nothing, while thinking they're doing the right thing killing third world innocents we turned into terrorists because of these evil men's greed.
This could have been a good movie, had Gale Anne Hurd produced and Kathryn Bigelow directed it. The film looks like they shot it in the Valley, and the acting is generally wooden as hell (except Coop), who could have been written as an interesting character, versus the murderer he was (while being called a hero). They should have exposed the fraud that was Iraq, and shown Kyle's conflict that made him so emotionally cold (although next to his wife, bitchily played by Elise Robertson, whose previous work mainly consisted of standard tv fare, was nearly as emotionally crippled as Coop's Kyle). And that's because Clint Eastwood, who can be a concise, understated Director at best, is clearly harkening back to WWII predilections that seem so out of place at this time. He's jumped the shark at this point in his career, and should have retired with Gran Torino or Million Dollar Baby, two of his best works.
The stilted, jumping and uneven story arc left me completely unsympathetic to ANY of the characters in this badly executed work. I can't even say what the theme was, other than the post-war destruction of our vets so few of the jaded and entitled American public ever seems to notice. And being that our values are so far gone at this point in America's history, perhaps that's the best we can hope for - an opiated detachment; uncaring and unsympathetic to the pain, fear, and horror ALL PEOPLE across the WORLD feel because of an unjust war brought to their door; all because of some cowardly political puppet of the ultra-rich. These “Bilderberger/ Illuminati/NWO Global Corporatists”, seeking to remain in control through the acquisition of great wealth (at any immoral and criminally unethical price), will use anyone willing to give up their life, in the pursuit of some fantasy ascribed by these human fungi.
Back to the film, the ending could have been a real honest tear-jerker, had we any real honest pride left in our country. Instead, because of the lies, the lies, and the LIES (and false bravado) by the 9/11 traitors in the executive branch, as well as the oil, military industrial complex, and banking executives (not to mention those greedy criminal PIGS like Lloyd Blankfein, Alan Greenspan and Larry Silvestein who stole $2.3 TRILLION dollars of OUR money); the murderous treason of men like George HW Bush (and his do nothing, good for nothing, moronic puppet son George W), Richard "Dickless" Cheney (and other war hawks), and the global corporatists including the Bin Laden Family, the Saudi Royals, World Bank, and Trilateral Commission, as well as those complicit in Media, government and Judicial branch, America has NO HONOR left.
While our veterans continue to be brainwashed and used by our illegal government, any patriotic film these days just reminds us of how despicable America's government has become. Then, when an actual patriot like Chris Kyle is killed by a comrade in arms after his last tour – by some emotionally damaged individual, who subconsciously knows how hypocritical his actions were, and how criminal and evil his superiors are, creating a psychosis in his soul - instead of realizing that the truth will out; the truth MUST come out, for America to find its way again, Eastwood panders to what Kyle could have been, should have been, and would have been, had America been attacked by actual enemies from abroad and not the true enemies who attacked us from within.
Shame on Eastwood for spoiling the story of Kyle that should serve as a warning to the next generation, that it is time to STOP SERVING these pathetic cowards drawn to political power, wealth beyond all decency, and perversion beyond all sense of morality - THEY are the TRUE ENEMY of humanity; not the Iraqis, not the Iranians, not the Syrians, not the Russians - it is Not the PEOPLE of the world we should be warring with, but rather those of the kind of wealth no single individual should ever behold.
It is time we declare a war on war, and wage love on one another. We must come together as a planetary species of unique cultures and identities, and use logic and reason, compassion and an unwavering ethical morality, as we take away the wealth and power from the few, distributing to all, yet remaining free from violence and faithful to the truth. ONLY then will we achieve the harmony and balance necessary for us to endure as a civilization into a grand future among the stars. Then, we can suppose the next time they release a movie like this - a nationalistic propaganda device of the kind Josef Goebbels was known for - full of empty bravado & bluster - no one goes and bankrupts the liars! Recalling the 70's public service message advocating peace, "suppose they gave a war, and no one came?" Now THOSE are the kinds of heroes we need now, not the empty-headed Manchurian Candidates who unquestioningly MURDER for some fat cat’s perverted agenda.