Movie is trash or more or less…I will say Bradley Cooper gave a mostly impressive performance, but the direction is weak and uninspired and the writing ranged from mediocre to painfully cliche…..Employs all the well worn tropes of the genre, personalizing a minor character minutes or seconds before they are killed. None of what was a potentially fascinating story was done with any deviation from standard Hollywood fare. His marriage was typical and the scenes barely resonate with the audience, his BUDS training is almost an afterthought besides a glaringly odd racial moment which what was insulting and bizarre….the movie then segues into a repetitive and eventually grating routine of action scenes that are rarely tense, mostly either generic or over the top in their execution….Cooper utters throwaway lines like 'Theres only one sniper that could make that shot', men discuss wives and gods in badly underwritten glimpses of character development. The scenes back home are overcooked and lost on an audience that isn't connecting with the character, because they aren't given the chance too. After 3 tours, I was finished. Eastwood may be finished as a director, I don't know what an 84 year old can really contribute, but many of his touches are lost or badly blurred, as the direction is that caliber of a C list war movies of yesteryear. This is now a new example. Chris Kyles life may have been a compelling story….this isn't one. And it has little to say about violence, war, revenge, relationships, religion, or much of anything…..Eastwoods stance veers towards a strange pro war sentiment, and is very one sided in it's chronicling of Iraq. Both 'The Kingdom' and 'Zero Dark Thirty' are vastly more compelling and opinionated movies….This was not something I was anticipating with any real fervor, so was not let down…but, after 'Inherent Vice', and now this….I am in need of a palette cleanse, I hope I don't strike all the way out with 'Blackhat' next week.
at how bad these were tho
Scust fukk this guy, I wouldn't be surprised if they hate us more now. Wtf? It disgusts me that people in the South will eat this movie up. I watched it twice, the second time expecting some type of awareness, but then I realized it is just a shytty script.
