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American Sniper 10.30pm beIN Movies Action
THE true story of the most successful military sniper of all time.
A much decorated US Army crackshot who killed 160 people during the Iraq War. It’s far from just a flagwaving exercise.
Chris Kyle, alias Bradley Cooper, was a patriot inspired by the 9/11 Twin Towers disaster in New York to volunteer as an assassin.
He ruthlessly gunned down his country’s enemies in frontline skirmishes among the rooftops of Baghdad.
In the folklore of the Old West, the hidden gunman who kills by stealth is a bushwhacker, and not a traditional hero.
Does this help explain, Kyle’s eventual mental breakdown chronicled in this biopic?
In 2014, moviemaker Clint Eastwood, in his eighties, picked his way with tact and guile through this inside story of modern warfare. No-one has made more movies about gunfighters than Eastwood and his insights were much praised.
Empire magazine called it: “The most exciting and muscular Iraq movie we’ve had. A thrilling war story that manages to both honour the necessities of heroism and ruminate on what heroism might cost a man.”
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