Review of American Sniper (2014) by I Am A — 25 Aug 2017

As a war movie, it is great, and it really tells a moving story about the difficulty of being a soldier while being a father and husband. As history or biography, it is largely a cartoon. It gets some of the grit right about the fighting in Iraq, but the movie fictionalizes the book, which itself has a lot of fiction in it.

True patriotism and honoring America's soldiers are not served by make believe stories passed off as somehow true. I liked the movie but do not like the false story being passed off as true biography.