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Feb 1, 2015

American Sniper Review

Clint Eastwood directed Academy award nominated American Sniper is a gripping war tale and a much impressive movie that makes one deeply connected and involved with the subject from the very beginning. A biopic on Chris Kyle who was an American Sniper sent to Iraq post September Eleventh attacks, this movie is an intense and well executed war drama and for that the screenplay and narrative plays a major contribution.

Though a performance oriented movie with Bradley Cooper coming up with one of the best of his career well supported by Sienna Miller, there are other factors too that contributes in making American Sniper a must watch movie, and quite well deserved an Oscar nomination for the best picture of 2014.

The story revolves around Chris Kyle, a sniper who is in the United States army who is sent to Iraq after 09/11 attacks. His love for his country makes him spend close to thousand days spread across four tours in Iraq as a sniper killing one hundred and sixty from the opposite side and protecting US Marines from being hit.

The prime focus of this movie showing the inner conflicts in Chris and the problems he had to face as a Sniper that affected his normal life. Nicknamed as The Legend by his own men, Chris becomes the most wanted man in Iraq with a price tag of $180K on his head. Though the narrative and script holds the film till the very end, it should also be said that somewhere we get a feel of Zero Dark Thirty, another war drama with a similar style of storytelling.

With Clint Eastwood's excellent direction backed by a powerful screenplay with Cooper putting in something special on the acting front, here is one movie that is not to be missed at any cost. I am going with four out of five for American Sniper.

Rating - 4 / 5

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