Running time132 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$59 millionBox office$547.4 millionAmerican Sniper is a 2014 American directed by and written. It is loosely based on the memoir (2012) by, with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. The film follows the life of Kyle, who became the deadliest in U.S. Military history with 255 kills from four tours in the, 160 of which were officially confirmed by the. While Kyle was celebrated for his military successes, his tours of duty took a heavy toll on his personal and family life.

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The film was produced by Eastwood,. It stars Cooper as Kyle and as his wife, with, and in supporting roles.The world premiere was on November 11, 2014, at the Festival, followed by a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 25, 2014, and a wide release on January 16, 2015. The film became a major success, with a worldwide gross of over $547 million, making it the highest-grossing film of 2014 in the United States ($350 million), the highest-grossing war film of all time unadjusted for inflation, and Eastwood's highest-grossing film to date.The film received mostly positive reviews, with praise for towards Cooper's lead performance and Eastwood's direction, although it attracted some controversy over its portrayal of both the and Chris Kyle.

At the, American Sniper received six nominations, including, and for Cooper, ultimately winning one award for. Contents.Plot Growing up in, Chris Kyle is taught by his father how to shoot a rifle and hunt deer. Years later, Kyle has become a ranch hand and cowboy, and returns home early, to find his girlfriend in bed with another man. After telling her to leave, he is mulling it over with his brother when he sees news coverage of the and decides to enlist in the Navy.

He qualifies for special training and becomes a sniper.Kyle meets Taya Studebaker at a bar, and the two soon marry. He is sent to after the.

His first kills are a woman and boy who attacked with a Russian made. Kyle is visibly upset by the experience but later earns the nickname 'Legend' for his many kills. Assigned to hunt for the leader, Kyle interrogates a family whose father offers to lead the SEALs to 'The Butcher', al-Zarqawi's second-in-command. The plan goes awry when The Butcher captures the father and his son, killing them while Kyle is pinned down by a sniper.

This sniper goes by the name Mustafa and is an medalist from. Meanwhile, the insurgents issue a bounty on Kyle.Kyle returns home to his wife and the birth of his son. He is distracted by memories of his war experiences and by Taya's concern for them as a couple – she wishes he would focus on his home and family.Kyle leaves for a second tour and is promoted to. Involved in a shootout with The Butcher, he helps in killing him. When he returns home to a newborn daughter, Kyle becomes increasingly distant from his family.

On Kyle's third tour, Mustafa seriously injures a unit member, Ryan 'Biggles' Job, and the unit is evacuated back to base. When they decide to return to the field and continue the mission, another SEAL, is killed by gunfire.Guilt compels Kyle to undertake a fourth tour, and Taya tells him that she may not be there when he returns. Back in Iraq, Kyle is shocked to learn that Biggles died in surgery to repair the wounds he sustained. Assigned to kill Mustafa, who has been sniping U.S. Army combat engineers building a barricade.

Kyle's sniper team is placed on a rooftop inside enemy territory. Kyle spots Mustafa and takes him out with a risky long distance shot at 2,100 yards (1,920 m), but this exposes his team's position to numerous armed insurgents. In the midst of the gunfight, and low on ammunition, Kyle tearfully calls Taya and tells her he is ready to come home. A sandstorm provides cover for a chaotic escape in which Kyle is injured and almost left behind.After Kyle gets back, on edge and unable to adjust fully to civilian life, he is asked by a psychiatrist if he is haunted by all the things he did in war. When he replies that it is 'all the guys he couldn't save' that haunt him, the psychiatrist encourages him to help severely wounded veterans in the VA hospital. After that, Kyle gradually begins to adjust to home life.Years later, on February 2, 2013, Kyle says goodbye to his wife and family as he leaves in good spirits to spend time with a veteran at a shooting range. An on-screen subtitle reveals: 'Chris Kyle was killed that day by a ', followed by archive footage of crowds standing along the highway for his funeral procession.

More are shown attending his memorial service.Cast. as. as.

as. as Ryan 'Biggles' Job. as 'D' / Dandridge. as himself. as Sheikh Al-Obodi. as Jeff Kyle.

as Goat-Winston. as Captain Martens. as Mustafa, a character partially based on Iraqi sniper. as 'The Butcher', a character possibly based on.

as Agent Snead. as Squirrel.

as Wayne Kyle. as Captain Gillespie.

as Colonel Gronski. Elise Robertson as Deby Kyle.

as Sara. Cole Konis as Young Chris Kyle. as Instructor Rolle. Luke Sunshine as Young Jeff Kyle. as Colton Kyle. Troy Vincent as Pastor. Vincent Selhorst-Jones asProduction.

Chris Kyle in 2012On May 24, 2012, it was announced that (WB) had acquired the rights to the book with set to produce and star in the screen adaptation. Cooper had thought of to play Kyle, but WB agreed to buy it only if Cooper would star. In September 2012, said he was interested in directing the film. On February 2, 2013,. On May 2, 2013, it was announced that would direct. Spielberg had read Kyle's book, though he desired to have a more psychological conflict present in the screenplay so an 'enemy sniper' character could serve as the insurgent sharpshooter who was trying to track down and kill Kyle.

Spielberg's ideas contributed to the development of a lengthy screenplay approaching 160 pages. Due to WB's budget constraints, Spielberg felt he could not bring his vision of the story to the screen. On August 5, 2013, Spielberg dropped out of directing. On August 21, 2013, it was reported that would instead direct the film. Casting On March 14, 2014, joined the cast. On March 16, 2014, was cast, as was on March 18, 2014.

On March 20, 2014, Rey Gallegos, and also joined the cast, as did and on March 25, 2014. Kevin Lacz, a former Navy SEAL, was also cast and served as a technical advisor. Another former Navy SEAL, Joel Lambert, also joined the film, portraying a sniper. On June 3, was added to the cast to portray Kyle's son, Colton Kyle. Filming began on March 31, 2014 in; it was also shot in. On April 23, the reported that ten days of filming set in an Afghan village was set to begin at the Blue Cloud Movie Ranch in the area.

On May 7, shooting of the film was spotted around; a milk factory was used as the abandoned factory which insurgents close in on from all directions at the climax of the film. The pier and bar scenes were filmed in.shot the film with. The film is Eastwood's second to be shot digitally, after. Music There is no 'Music by' credit on this film.

Clint Eastwood, who has composed the for most of his films since (2003), is credited as the composer of 'Taya's Theme'. DeBeasi is credited as composer of additional music and as music editor. The film also features the song by, which plays during the wedding scene, and 'The Funeral'. Reception Box office American Sniper grossed $350.1 million in North America and $197 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $547.1 million, against a budget of around $58 million. Calculating in all expenses and revenues, estimated that the film made a profit of $243 million, making it the second-most profitable film of 2014 only behind 's. Worldwide, it is the highest-grossing war film of all time (breaking 's record) and Eastwood's highest-grossing film to date. It is the seventh film to gross over $500 million.

North America In North America, it is the highest-grossing film of 2014, the highest-grossing war film unadjusted for inflation (and, on an adjusted basis, second to with $379 million), the third-highest-grossing R-rated film of all time (behind and ), ' fourth-highest-grossing film (behind, and ), and the eighth-highest-grossing nominee film (behind, and ). It became the seventh Warner Bros.' Film to earn over $300 million in the U.S. And Canada and the 50th film to reach the mark.

It earned as much as the combined earnings of all of the other. On March 8, 2015, it surpassed to become the highest-grossing film of 2014, making it the first R-rated film since (1998) and the first non-franchise film since (2009) to top the year-end rankings.American Sniper at the on November 11, 2014, just after a screening of at in. In North America, the film opened to a on December 25, 2014, playing at four theaters—two in New York, one in Los Angeles, and one in Dallas—and earned $610,000 in its opening weekend ($850,000 including Christmas Day) at an average of $152,500 per venue debuting at #22. The following week the film earned $676,909 playing at the same number of locations at an average of $169,277 per theater, which is the second-biggest weekend average ever for a live-action movie (previously held by 2001's ). American Sniper holds the record for the most entries in the top 20 Top Weekend Theater Averages with 3 entries (at #12, #14 and #17). It earned a total of $3.4 million from limited release in three weekends.The film began its wide debut across North American theaters on January 16, 2015 (Thursday night showings began at 7:00 pm).

It set an all-time-highest Thursday night opening record for an R-rated drama with $5.3 million (previously held by Lone Survivor). The film topped the box office on its opening day grossing $30.5 million (including Thursday previews) from 3,555 theaters setting January records for both biggest debut opening (previously held by ) and single-day gross (previously held by ). In its traditional three-day opening the film earned $89.2 million which was double than expected and broke the record for the largest January opening (previously held by ) and the largest winter opening, which is also Eastwood's top opening as a director (breaking 's opening).

The three-day opening is also the biggest opening weekend for a drama film (previously held by ), the second-biggest debut for a Best Picture Oscar nominee (behind ), the second-biggest debut for an R-rated film (behind ), and the third-biggest for a non-comic book, non-fantasy/sci-fi film (behind and ). It also set an January opening and single weekend record with $10.6 million (previously held by Avatar in its fourth weekend) and an R-rated IMAX debut record (previously held by ). It earned $107.2 million during its four-day setting a record for the biggest R-rated four-day gross.In its, the film expanded to 3,705 theaters making it the second-widest launch for an R-rated movie (behind the film itself). It grossed an estimated $64.6 million in its second weekend, declining only by 28%—and set the record for the second-best hold ever for a movie opening to more than $85 million and also set the record for the eighth-largest second-weekend gross. In just 10 days of release, the film surpassed ($198.5 million) to become the second-highest-grossing war film in North America.

By its second weekend, had already reported that the film was on poise to become the highest-grossing film of 2014 in North America, a record that was, at the time held by ($334 million), judging from its gradual decline and strong holdovers. It became the highest-grossing IMAX film of January grossing $18.8 million from 333 IMAX theaters. On Thursday, January 29, 2015–35 days after its initial release, the film surpassed ($216.5 million) to become the highest-grossing war film in North America, unadjusted for inflation.By its third weekend of wide release, the film expanded to 3,885 theaters (180 additional theaters added), breaking its own record of being the widest R-rated film ever released. The film topped the box office through its third weekend earning $30.66 million, which is the second-highest weekend gross (behind ).

After topping the box office for three consecutive weekends, the film was overtaken by in its fourth weekend. Outside North America The film had the biggest debut weekend for a Clint Eastwood film, and went on to become the director's top-grossing film of all time in each of the countries in which it was released. In Italy the film opened at number two with $7.1 million, Eastwood's best opening of all time, and Warner Bros.' Second-biggest opening for a non-franchise U.S. Film there; it went on to top the box office the following weekend as well. Its other largest openings occurred in France ($6.3 million), where it topped the box office for four consecutive weekends, Australia ($4.3 million, $4.6 million including previews), the UK, Ireland and Malta ($3.8 million), Spain ($3.2 million), Japan ($2.8 million), Mexico ($2.6 million), Brazil ($1.8 million), and South Korea ($1.2 million). In total earnings, its largest market outside of the U.S.

Are Italy ($23 million) and France ($22.8 million). Critical response On the film holds an approval rating of 72%, based on 289 reviews, with an average rating of 6.89/10.

The website's critical consensus states, 'Powered by Clint Eastwood's sure-handed direction and a gripping central performance from Bradley Cooper, American Sniper delivers a tense, vivid tribute to its real-life subject.' On, the film has a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on 48 critics, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'. In polls conducted during the opening weekend, audiences gave American Sniper a rare grade of 'A+' on an A+ to F scale.of wrote: 'A taut, vivid and sad account of the brief life of the most accomplished marksman in American military annals.' Justin Chang of gave the film a positive review, saying '.an excellent performance from a bulked-up Bradley Cooper, this harrowing and intimate character study offers fairly blunt insights into the physical and psychological toll exacted on the front lines.'

Of gave the film a positive review, saying 'Both a devastating war movie and a devastating antiwar movie, a subdued celebration of a warrior's skill and a sorrowful lament over his alienation and misery.' Keith Phipps of wrote that the film, while well made, missed a chance to explore the toll that such service exacts on soldiers. Chris Nashawaty of gave the film a C+, saying 'The film's just a repetition of context-free combat missions and one-dimensional targets.' Elizabeth Weitzman of gave the film four out of five stars, saying 'The best movies are ever-shifting, intelligent and open-hearted enough to expand alongside an audience. American Sniper. is built on this foundation of uncommon compassion.' Of the gave the film four out of four stars, saying 'After 40 years of Hollywood counterpropaganda telling us war is necessarily corrupting and malign,.

American Sniper nobly presents the case for the other side.' Of gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying 'Bradley Cooper, as Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, and director Eastwood salute Kyle's patriotism best by not denying its toll. Their targets are clearly in sight, and their aim is true.' Of gave the film a B, saying ' American Sniper is imperfect and at times a little corny, but also ambivalent and complicated in ways that are uniquely Eastwoodian.' Of ReelViews gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying ' American Sniper lifts director Clint Eastwood out of the doldrums that have plagued his last few films.' Rafer Guzman of gave the film three out of four stars, saying 'Cooper nails the role of an American killing machine in Clint Eastwood's clear-eyed look at the Iraq War.' Of the gave the film a positive review, saying 'Eastwood's impeccably crafted action sequences so catch us up in the chaos of combat we are almost not aware that we're watching a film at all.'

Claudia Puig of gave the film three out of four stars, saying 'It's clearly Cooper's show. Substantially bulked up and affecting a believable Texas drawl, Cooper embodies Kyle's confidence, intensity and vulnerability.' Joshua Rothkopf of gave the film four out of five stars, saying 'Only Clint Eastwood could make a movie about an Iraq War veteran and infuse it with doubts, mission anxiety and ruination.'

Praised the film, saying 'His focus was not on whom we were fighting, but the unbearably high price Americans pay for waging war regardless of its target. The film is a cautionary tale for Americans about why we must avoid war. It is not a celebration of waging it.' The film drew some negative reviews., in, wrote that the movie turned the complicated moral questions and mass-bloodshed of the Iraq war into a black and white fairy tale, without presenting the historical context. Of argued that the film presented a simplified black and white portrayal of the Iraq war, and that it features the distortion of facts into unreliable myths based upon previous legends.

David Masciotra of criticized the movie's focus on physical rather than moral courage as the ultimate manly virtue. Sniper Garett Reppenhagen stated that he did not view Iraqi civilians as savages, but as part of a friendly culture for which the movie has furthered ignorance, fear, and bigotry.

Cinematographer wrote in that he believes the film to be dangerous due to mutilating the classic into a simplistic, brutal, and sadistic destruction of 'evildoers'. Inkoo Kang of gave the film a negative review, saying 'Director Clint Eastwood's focus on Kyle is so tight that no other character, including wife Taya (Sienna Miller), comes through as a person, and the scope so narrow that the film engages only superficially with the many moral issues surrounding the Iraq War.' Several other articles have also been critical of the movie.Responding to critics, Eastwood said that American Sniper shows 'what war does to the people left behind', and that presenting 'the fact of what war does to the family and the people who have to go back into civilian life like Chris Kyle did' is the 'biggest statement any film' can make. He stated: 'One of my favorite war movies that I've been involved with is and that was about family, about being taken away from life, being sent someplace. In World War II, everybody just sort of went home and got over it.

Now there is some effort to help people through it.' He also said: 'I was a child growing up during. That was supposed to be the one to end all wars. And four years later, I was standing at the being drafted during the, and then after that there was Vietnam, and it goes on and on forever. I just wonder.

Does this ever stop? And no, it doesn't. So each time we get in these conflicts, it deserves a lot of thought before we go wading in or wading out.

Going in or coming out. It needs a better thought process, I think.' Bradley Cooper stated that much of the criticism ignores that the film was about widespread neglect of returning veterans, and that people who take issue with Kyle should redirect their attention to the leaders who put the troops there in the first place.

He said: 'We looked at hopefully igniting attention about the lack of care that goes to vets. Any discussion that has nothing to do with vets, or what we did or did not do for them, every conversation in those terms is moving farther and farther from what our soldiers go through, and the fact that 22 veterans commit suicide each day.' Cooper said that an increasing number of soldiers are returning from conflict psychologically damaged, only to be more or less discarded.First Lady and former vice presidential nominee also spoke out in support of the movie. Historical accuracy Several major news sources commented on the accuracy of the film and how it differs from Chris Kyle's written accounts. The enemy sniper Mustafa is a major character in the film but receives only a small mention in the memoir; Kyle noted: 'I never saw him, but other snipers later killed an Iraqi sniper we think was him.'

According to the memoir, Kyle's 2100-yard shot was taken against an insurgent holding a rocket launcher, not Mustafa. Notes that according to screenwriter Jason Hall, Kyle said of Mustafa: 'He shot my friend. I'm not going to put his name in my book.' The first combat scene in the film has Kyle killing a boy and mother who try to attack U.S. Troops with a grenade; the boy was added for the film.

The film depicts Ryan 'Biggles' Job as dying shortly after he is shot by Mustafa; in reality, Job survived for several years after the incident but died after surgical complications from an operation on his face. The character 'the Butcher' was created for the film, although this character may have been based on the real-life. The visual blog deduced that, while taking creative licence into account, the film was 56.9% accurate when compared to real-life events, summarizing: 'a lot of the events in the movie did happen, although Kyle's involvement in them was repeatedly exaggerated'.

Fake baby One aspect of the film that received negative comment was its use of a fake baby doll in one scene, which was so obviously artificial that it became a distraction. In at least one media screening of the film, the audience laughed out loud at how artificial the doll appeared.

When discussing the film's prospects for winning an Academy Award, critic Dave Karger said, 'The reason why American Sniper is not going to win is because of the plastic baby.' In, journalist Mark Harris said, 'That plastic baby is going to be rationalised by Eastwood auteur cultists until the end of days.' In response, screenwriter replied, 'Hate to ruin the fun but real baby #1 showed up with a fever. Real baby #2 was no show. Clint voice 'Gimme the doll, kid.' ' Top ten lists American Sniper was listed on many critics' top ten lists. December 15, 2014.

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Plot The movie starts off with Master Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett (Berenger), an experienced sniper, and his spotter Cpl. Papich (Aden Young) assassinating a Panamanian rebel leader in the jungle. Afterward, they take up a position in an isolated part of the jungle and wait out until nighttime for an extraction. However, they are extracted at daylight much to the dismay of Beckett. An experienced rebel sniper, formerly trained by Beckett, kills Papich as the two reach the helicopter, but Beckett is able to retrieve his body and bring it to the helicopter. Infuriated, Beckett blames the helicopter CO for Papich's death.

Reception Critical response to the film was mixed. Rotten Tomatoes reports a 48% approval rating based on 142 reviews; and an 82% based on 120,688 audience reviews. Metacritic assigns the film a weighted average score of 53 out of 100, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'. Empire had a verdict of 'The sequel-ready Swagger challenges Bourne's supremacy with an impressive shoot-'em-up, work-it-out action drama.'

Some film critics, both liberal and conservative, saw the film as left-leaning in its politics, arguing that the main villain (Senator Meachum) was a clear analogy for Dick Cheney. Reception Although the film was written and production photography completed in late 1967, it was released after the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy in early 1968 and thus had some topical relevance to then-current events. Nevertheless it was not very successful at the box office. However, Bogdanovich, who appears in the film as a young writer-director (i.e. Like Karloff, playing a character very similar to himself in real life), credits it with getting him noticed by the studios, which in turn led to his directing three very successful studio films in the early 1970s. The movie is currently included as one of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.

Plot The movie chronicles the period when John Allen Muhammad (played by Bobby Hosea) and Lee Boyd Malvo (played by Trent Cameron) went on a serial shooting spree in October 2002 in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Maryland, all parts of the Washington Metropolitan Area, the entire area of which was held in a grip of terror. The protagonist is Charles Moose (played by Charles S. Dutton), the chief of the Montgomery County Police Department in Montgomery County, Maryland, who is one of those heading the efforts to track down the snipers. Unable to give anything but small pieces of information at various press conferences held during the 23 dark days, Moose finds himself vilified and derided in many corners as ineffectual and incompetent. Indeed, quite a few newspapers outside the area targeted by snipers came right out and called for Moose's resignation. But the chief's dogged persistence ultimately paid off and — in the sort of twist that a professional writer of thrillers might dismiss as inconceivable — the two men arrested for the carnage turned out to be the archetypal 'least likely suspects.' Reception The film was poorly received in the former Soviet Union.

Some Red Army Stalingrad veterans were so offended by inaccuracies in the film and how the Red Army was portrayed that on May 7, 2001, shortly after the film premiered in Russia, they expressed their displeasure in the Duma, demanding a ban of the film. The film was received poorly in Germany. Critics claimed that it simplified history and glorified war. At the Berlinale film festival, it was partially booed.

Annaud stated afterwards that he would not present another film at Berlinale, calling it a 'slaughterhouse' and claiming that his movie received much better reception elsewhere. In the United States, the film received mixed reviews; the most common complaint among even the positive reviews was over the inclusion of what was seen as an unnecessary love-story that detracted from the main plot. Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of four and wrote that it 'is about two men placed in a situation where they have to try to use their intelligence and skills to kill each other. When Annaud focuses on that, the movie works with rare concentration. The additional plot stuff and the romance are kind of a shame'. New York Magazine's Peter Ranier was less kind, declaring 'It's as if an obsessed movie nut had decided to collect every bad war-movie convention on one computer and program it to spit out a script.'

The German-Russian writer Wladimir Kaminer played an extra as a Soviet soldier in the film. In his book Russian Disco (2000), Kaminer criticizes how the Soviet soldiers are portrayed as hooligans getting drunk and playing farting games.edit Notes. Reception This film generally garnered a very poor rating although receiving an average rating of 3.9/10 stars on IMDb. The general consensus of the reviews offered is that the film is let down by the poor re-use of scenes barely seconds apart and the terrible acting grade by the actors.

There is also a general tendency to call this film comical as its entire premise is played out to be stereotypically ridiculous and over the top action and situation wise. The film was a direct-to-DVD movie.

In the first week The Marksman opened at #11 at rentals chart and earned $1.36 million. Box office According to Box Office Mojo, the movie grossed $14,638,755 on its opening weekend (2,218 theaters, averaging $6,599 per theater). The movie grossed a total of $35,662,731 in the North American market and $18,878,474 outside the U.S, making a total worldwide gross of $54,541,205.Critical reception The movie received mostly unfavorable reviews, scoring a 28% on Rotten Tomatoes, with that site's consensus being that it is 'A violent mess of a movie, Smokin' Aces has some Quentin Tarantino's style but not much of his wit or humor'.DVD sales Smokin' Aces was released on DVD on April 17, 2007 and sold 1,853,397 DVD units which produced a revenue of $35,714,831, or more than double the movie's budget. Prequel On July 17, 2007, director Joe Carnahan announced that production had been approved by Universal Pictures for a second Smokin' Aces film, which he would not direct. The film is a prequel to the original and was released straight to DVD on January 19, 2010.