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Powered by Clint Eastwood's sure-handed direction and a gripping central performance from Bradley Cooper, American Sniper delivers a tense, vivid tribute to its real-life subject.
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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. May 31, 2015 | Full Review…
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.
Dana Stevens
Eastwood makes the moral stakes almost nonexistent. May 29, 2015 | Full Review…
Eastwood makes the moral stakes almost nonexistent.
David Edelstein
Clint Eastwood's American Sniper is an often lazy and somewhat hazy propaganda film about American heroism and hell in the Iraq War. May 29, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Clint Eastwood's American Sniper is an often lazy and somewhat hazy propaganda film about American heroism and hell in the Iraq War.
Bruce Kirkland
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 | Rating: 3.5/4
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.
Richard Roeper
Cooper looks the part, having bulked up for it, but he can't do anything with the blandness of the character the script has given him. Jan 23, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Cooper looks the part, having bulked up for it, but he can't do anything with the blandness of the character the script has given him.
Sandra Hall
We've seen it before, but Eastwood is good at making it seem raw and personal, largely by the care he takes in building a character, and the situations that will test them. Jan 23, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
We've seen it before, but Eastwood is good at making it seem raw and personal, largely by the care he takes in building a character, and the situations that will test them.
Paul Byrnes
Eastwood and Cooper's depiction of post-traumatic stress disorder is superb. Mar 20, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Eastwood and Cooper's depiction of post-traumatic stress disorder is superb.
Bernard Boo
For many, I suspect, American Sniper may be weirdly liberating-gratifying a perhaps hitherto unsuspected desire to see their pessimism, hopeless and unchanging, projected on the screen. Mar 7, 2019 | Full Review…
For many, I suspect, American Sniper may be weirdly liberating-gratifying a perhaps hitherto unsuspected desire to see their pessimism, hopeless and unchanging, projected on the screen.
J. Hoberman
Cooper embodies the battle-weary soldier well enough - the actor has buffed himself up considerably and he definitely has charisma to spare and he carries the film with ease. Feb 26, 2019 | Full Review…
Cooper embodies the battle-weary soldier well enough - the actor has buffed himself up considerably and he definitely has charisma to spare and he carries the film with ease.
Paula Fleri-Soler
American Sniper honors the memory of Chris Kyle, an exemplary life of service and sacrifice. Jan 24, 2019 | Full Review…
American Sniper honors the memory of Chris Kyle, an exemplary life of service and sacrifice.
Nathalia Aryani
When "American Sniper" is on the battlefield, it is at its best. Eastwood has a keen sense of pacing for those moments, bringing an intensity that is as great as any film in the genre. Jan 23, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review…
When "American Sniper" is on the battlefield, it is at its best. Eastwood has a keen sense of pacing for those moments, bringing an intensity that is as great as any film in the genre.
Micheal Compton
American Sniper es un estremecedor retrato sobre la responsabilidad y el patriotismo de un hombre con su país impulsado por la fantástica personificación de Bradley Cooper Dec 28, 2018 | Rating: 8/ 10 | Full Review…
American Sniper es un estremecedor retrato sobre la responsabilidad y el patriotismo de un hombre con su país impulsado por la fantástica personificación de Bradley Cooper
Julio Fernando Navas
While there's a war story here (snd the pros and cons of war on either side of the aisle are addressed, nodded to) Eastwood focuses instead on the slow pervasive addiction of warfare, how nothing compares to the adrenaline rush and how subtly it begins to creep under one's skin. Cooper solidly portrays a dude who's got it all under control, until he realizes that he doesn't. Good film.
Super Reviewer
Though understandably accused of being jingoistic and racist - even if it makes a (dishonest, yes) distinction between Iraqi civilians and terrorists -, this is an extremely tense (and very well edited) war movie and a nuanced character study with Cooper in an intense performance.
Well-directed and at times inspiring, "American Sniper" is a strange blend of Jingoism and a criticism of the violence inflicted on the American side of the Iraqi war. Unfortunately, this lop-sided approach dulls the film's broader message about the effects of war on humanity. Great acting by Cooper and exciting action sequences make the film worth seeing even if the film is a bit overlong.
Succeeds largely on the strength of Bradley Cooper's great performance and less on the true life story that inspired it. Despite being a well told story, this is a theme we have seen plenty of times before on film. For me, it lessened the impact of it a little bit as I was reminded of better films like "The Hurt Locker", but all in all this is a story worth telling. The action is intense, well shot, and keeps you on the edge of your seat at times. It does get a little repetitive with him taking so many tours trying to find the same guy, but this is a small complaint. Otherwise, this is a film worth watching.
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