American Sniper
The true story of Chris Kyle; one of the Navy S.E.A.L and his skills as a pro Sniper.
31 May 1930, San Francisco, California, USA
26 April 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 April 1982, Bossier City, Louisiana, USA
28 April 1972, Lake Arrowhead, California, USA
8 July 1986, Dallas, Texas, USA
3 August 1981, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
21 January 1984, Dayton, Ohio, USA
24 August 1961, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
February 4, 1968 in Canton, Ohio, USA
13 January 1978, San Diego, California, USA
17 September 1979
May 27, 2016
Kyle killed two men, as a civilian, with his massive Colt .44 Magnum. That's a 'Dirty Harry' gun. Who directed 'American Sniper'? Dirty Harry did. That's terribly ironic.
June 21, 2016
It is too spare to be elegiac, but has just about enough ambiguity to fit in with Eastwood's life-long study of the American male and his place in a world that demands more than he can give.
May 29, 2015
Clint Eastwood's American Sniper is an often lazy and somewhat hazy propaganda film about American heroism and hell in the Iraq War.
February 28, 2017
Cooper continues to expand his range.
May 29, 2015
Although Cooper succeeds in resembling and sounding like the real Kyle, this isn't some cheap impersonation trick. Cooper gives maybe the best performance of his career.
May 29, 2015
Eastwood makes the moral stakes almost nonexistent.
June 07, 2016
Not only watchable, but quite good - the kind of lean, mean mediation on masculinity and duty that this particular filmmaker has always done so well.
May 29, 2015
It speaks emotionally to audiences who sense that we lost something in Iraq, yet still want to honor the heroism of those who risked their lives for the cause, whether or not it was ultimately a great one.
March 21, 2017
Well-produced but flawed.
May 31, 2015
American Sniper has a perspective that's recognizable from the classic Westerns Eastwood has long been associated with, both as an actor and a director. It's an existential critique of violent machismo that doubles as a celebration of violence.
