American Sniper

...one would be hard pressed to find a purer example of American movie directing in this day and age.

Star Bradley Cooper does some of his best acting ever here.

...most valuable work since Letters From Iwo Jima. More to the point, the story of this God-loving Texan boy and sharpest shooter in American military history, fits the director’s lean, thoughtful aesthetic like a made-to-measure poncho.

...et heltedigt om en mand, der ikke tøver med at sætte sit eget liv på spil for fædrelandet, ja, han ligefrem opsøger de livsfarlige situationer.

Bradley Cooper är övertygande i huvudrollen.

Eastwood er en mester i at betragte sine hovedpersoners heroiske gerninger og samtidig finde og studere de moralsk tvivlsomme elementer af heroismen.