What a stupid movie this was. It was like we have seen this same movie 100 times already. Just a dumb idea and a dumb story and its amazing that Lopez decided to this movie after not making a movie for so long.

Miss this movie at all costs

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What makes a great war movie? A movie that shows the horror of war, and doesn’t try to make the insanity and horror of war any less than what it really is. The all time champion of this will always be “Saving Private Ryan”, which came out in July 1998. The movie “American Sniper” is not on a par with Saving Private Ryan as far as showing battle scenes and death but as far as show how war affects a returning soldier both physically and mentally, American Sniper shows this as well as any war movie I have ever seen.

Bradley Cooper did a great job with his role in this movie and has already been nominated for an Academy Award and there is a good chance that Micheal Keaton will win best actor for Birdman, which is a movie that I did not like, but that’s Hollywood. Saving Private Ryan didn’t even win for best picture in 1998, losing incredibly to the movie “Shakespeare in Love”, which had to be the most ridiculous snub in Oscar History.

I strongly recommend “American Sniper”.

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This was a bad movie. There is nothing unusual about a bad movie, they happen all the time, what i found very unusual was that Michael Mann directed a movie this bad. The story was all over the place, the action and technical explanations made very little sense and were hard to follow. Most of the plot was ridiculous and the scenes moved all over the place, very often disconnected to the previous scene or making no sense at all. On a number of levels this was quite a bad movie. Considering Micheal Mann directed and wrote the movie “HEAT” which came out 20 years ago I was quite surprised that this movie was as bad as it was.

Avoid this movie at all costs. See American Sniper this weekend or Selma, which are much better uses of your time.

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