Storyline
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.
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Clint Eastwood, Mark Thomason, Chance Kelly, Bradley Cooper, Tim Griffin, Kyle Gallner, Robert Clotworthy, Jonathan Groff, Cory Hardrict, James D. Dever, Assaf Cohen, Sienna Miller, Marnette Patterson, Amber Alexander, Jake McDorman, Leonard Roberts, Shane Habberstad, Salah Salea, Brian Hallisay, Mido Hamada, Sam Jaeger, Keir O'Donnell, Ferguson Reid, Max Charles, Navid Negahban, Luke Grimes, Reynaldo Gallegos, Jonathan Kowalsky, Emerson Brooks, Erik Audé, James Ryen, Owain Yeoman, Sammy Sheik, Zack Duhame, Eric Ladin, Hector Bucio, Cole Konis, Ben Reed, Elise Robertson, Luke Sunshine, Troy Vincent, Brandon Salgado Telis, Billy Miller, Kevin Lacz, Brando Eaton, Evan Gamble, Fehd Benchemsi, Eric Close, Kathe Mazur, Fahim Fazli, Melissa Hayden, Pamela Denise Weaver, Greg Duke, Anthony Jennings, Vincent Selhorst-Jones, E.R. Ruiz, Jason Hall, Jason Walsh, Kevin Ryan, Benjamin Mathes, Luis Jose Lopez, Had Mhidi Senhaji, Ryan Sadaghiani, Ayman Samman, Aidan McGraw, Amie Farrell, Quay Terry, Tami Goveia, Leon Charles Farmer, Paul Meixner, Victoria Reina Sigloch, Joel Lambert, Tony Nevada, Brett Edwards, Nick Salter, Ricky Ryba, Jet Jurgensmeyer, Madeleine McGraw, Elizabeth Schmidt, Bryan Anderson, Jacob Schick, Wade White
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Reviews
88
Slant Magazine
Clint Eastwood startlingly grips the audience with his sense of hypnotic silence, which carries suggestions of what might be termed politically apolitical pragmatism.
80
A taut, vivid and sad account of the brief life of the most accomplished marksman in American military annals, American Sniper feels very much like a companion piece—in subject, theme and quality—to The Hurt Locker.
80
Just as “The Hurt Locker” found revelatory depths in Jeremy Renner, so American Sniper hinges on Cooper’s restrained yet deeply expressive lead performance, allowing many of the drama’s unspoken implications to be read plainly in the actor’s increasingly war-ravaged face.
80
Eastwood has become tauntingly tough-minded: “You’re enjoying this, aren’t you?” he seems to be saying. And, with the remorselessness of age, he follows Chris Kyle’s rehabilitation and redemption back home, all the way to their heartbreaking and inexplicable end.
75
Propulsive battle sequences in which sandstorms make the fog of war quite literal are the ostensible focus of American Sniper, but the real tension comes from our anticipation of how they'll affect the life this sharpshooter is reluctant to return to until he feels he's done everything he possibly can.
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