Customer Ratings & Reviews

This movie was great and very entertaining and it holds you until the very end but in my opinion I think the book gives you a more realistic overview and realism about the exact story told from Chris himself. The movies always have a way of putting a Hollywood spin on everything and in this case the original story from Chris himself didn't need the Hollywood twist added because it really crushes and distorts the trueness about his adventure and real life positions.

American Sniper, it was really super movie. I loved it as Chris was real superman. I wished that Chris would help me for improving my life. I liked his role that he fought his life for improving better and setting quiet life with his family. I felt like we regret our past. I agreed that we were not perfect. We must move on and think positive. I may work on that I would not give up. I recommend that everyone should watch it and understand about Chris Kyle's life.

great movie, great action, a movie that I have added to my collection

This is no ordinary war movie, this is an EXTRAORDINARY war movie. I believe that I now have a greater appreciation of what our men and women, in the military, go through in combat and the difficulty for many trying to reintegrate back into society. The HORROR of war.....I can't even imagine. I thought that American Sniper was very well produced, directed, and acted. Bradley Cooper was sensational-brilliant even. I was and still am in awe of this film......

Very simple to review. If you ever served the military then this movie will hit home big time !!!! I couldn't help but get emotional with some aspects of exposure of how military life is so different from civilian life. One day your in combat and the next day your sitting on your couch at home watching TV. This movie is very realistic and I can't help but fall in love with Bradly Cooper's portrayal of Chis Kyle. I couldn't recommend this movie enough.

Great movie tons of action and trama would highly recommended

Been wanting to see this movie in the theater however, with my son (at the time the movie was at cinemas only) was serving OUR country in Afghanistan as an Army Captain I held off for fear of myself or my wife experiencing a fear or premonition of what could happen to him. Now that he is home in the USA safe and sound I am waiting for him, my wife, & I to sit down to experience the movie together. Thanks Best Buy for making the buying experience so easy.

This movie, as a whole, really blew me away. Bradly Cooper's portrayal of Chris Kyle was unbelievable. He literally became Chris Kyle both physically and mentally. Clint Eastwood and everybody else involved in the story did a great job of showing how hard it is for so many of our vets to reintegrate back into society when they return home. That indeed was a revelation for me. My hat is OFF to all of our men in women in uniform for doing what they do!!

Talk about a movie that is full of action and emotional at the same time. As this movie is based on a true story it helps you appreciate what the people in the armed services do for the country and better understand the physical and emotional scars the come home with. A must watch especially for those who don't appreciate the freedoms they have in this country.

This is a good movie. I know that supposedly there are some details that were exaggerated in the film but it is entertaining and mostly based on actual events. The sound quality on this Blu-ray is great. Obviously knowing the real life events, the movie has a sad ending.

I am in the military so obviously I am partial towards this movie, but it does an amazing job of capturing and echoing the real life story of Chris Kyle. Whether you want to get the family together or have a solo movie night, recommend it. Bradley Cooper, as always, is top notch with a great supporting cast. Definitely some tough scenes but it captures at least what it can to be as real about everything as it can.

I loved this movie from start to finish. As if anybody needed convincing that Bradley Cooper is an amazing actor who completely immerses himself into a role... this movie grabbed you and didn't let go. Chris Kyle's story was brought to life with such focus and emotion that you couldn't turn away. Put aside any war or military bashing and just watch it for the true personal experience of one man who felt that it was his job to keep others safe.

This is one of the greatest moves in the last 15 yrs.; in my opinion (Lone Survivor in this category as well)!! Great story (read the book twice), very accurate (equipment wise), great acting! Eastwood and company 'hit it out of the park with this one!! Though I noted many inaccuracies from book (real life) to movie (Hollywood); it is still a great movie! Highly recommend for a great movie about a hero in the most recent war we have been in.

Didn't know this movie was about a real person until hearing about him in the current news. A father, a husband and loyal navy seal. Had a natural gift for marksmanship and one of the highest number of kills as a sniper in U.S. history. 4 tours & a dedicated soldier, I was devastated that he died the way he did. Big fan of bradly cooper, his acting was right on and shows that he can be a serious actor as well a comedy actor. Great movie!

As a 3 time Iraq veteran who had his a** covered by Chief Kyle, I would say that this movie portrays both sides of the troops emotions while serving overseas. It also gives those who don't know, an accurate idea of what the spouses of those deployed go through. Any American who believes in freedom, honor, duty, selfless service, and courage should watch this film. The Blu-ray version, with the added content about PTSD is also a must see.

For those who don't already know, American Sniper tells the story of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history. The movie was excellent and pays great respect to the legacy/duty of Chris. It is also very loyal to the book by the same title. If you want to learn more about Chris, this movie is a start. I recommend the book as well, it was a great read. RIP Chris and Thank You for your Service to out Great Nation.

This is a fantastic movie about the real life Navy Seal/sniper Chris Kyle and the events of his life. Bradley Cooper did an amazing job and I was so glad to see this movie honored at the Academy Awards. I also love the Blue-Ray/DVD/Digital combo packs as we can enjoy this on multiple devices that way. I hate it when some movies only come out on Blue-Ray/digital. A good buy as I got this on sale at BB and very happy to own it now.

In American Sniper, the 34th film to be directed by Clint Eastwood, Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) rarely has a clear view of the field of battle. As perhaps the most accomplished marksman in US military history, he’s invariably lying on his belly on a dust-blown rooftop, staring down a telescopic sight, methodically picking off one enemy after the next. His experience of war is an endless extreme close-up. Eastwood’s tense and absorbing film was adapted from the memoirs of the real Chris Kyle, a highly decorated American Navy SEAL who served on four tours of duty in Iraq before being honourably discharged in 2009. He was great at what he did, which is to way say he was a skilled and dependable killer. He had 160 confirmed kills to his name – the actual total may have exceeded 250 – and proved so deadly that the Iraqis eventually put a six-figure bounty on his head. But Eastwood doesn’t care about the legend. Instead, he shows us Kyle much as he saw his targets: with that strange combination of extreme intimacy and extreme remove that a long-range sight confers. The film begins by turning its sharpshooting star into a target. During a nerve-wracking confrontation in Fallujah, we watch Kyle take aim at a young boy who’s about to hurl a grenade at his platoon, a neat match-cut whips us back in time to a young Kyle being taught how to hunt by his father in the Texas backwoods. It’s as if the adult is taking aim across time and space at his younger self – abnegating his own life in order to do this job he believes is simultaneously terrible and right. Cooper, who’s bulked up to the size of a largish bottle bank for the role, deftly captures Kyle’s experience of operating in this eerie moral dead zone. (The film’s not interested in the morality of the Iraq War itself, just Kyle’s actions within it.) When he takes a successful shot, often at a near-impossible distance, his colleagues cheer and whoop, but he remains still, silently processing what’s just happened. (His boot-camp instructor encourages him to “find the space between heartbeats” in which take each shot.) The black-and-white simplicity of the mission briefings – move in, clear this, capture that, get out – become trampled into a morass of moral greyness. In that sense, Kyle is a typical Eastwoodian hero: another lone gunman on a wild frontier, trying his best to square his actions with his code. Between tours, Kyle tries to decompress back at home in Texas with his wife Taya, who’s terrifically played by Sienna Miller: with this and her equally subtle, shaded turn in Foxcatcher, she seems to be gearing up for an overdue career renaissance. The couple’s domestic strains aren’t all that interesting or unusual for a film of this type, but Cooper and Miller play them with a clarity and rawness that keep the R&R sequences from feeling like dramatic down-time. Besides, regardless of whether the film has us in a suburban Texan bedroom or a firefight in the shattered Iraqi streets, each scene is built as solidly and methodically as a chest of drawers, with no confusion over where the pieces fit. Panic has never been Eastwood’s style, and even during the climactic shoot-out, where a sandstorm engulfs both sides in a symbolic fog of war, the camera remains perceptive and alert. In the scheme of Eastwood’s career, this comes as something of a relief. After the murky triple-flub of Hereafter, J. Edgar and Jersey Boys, American Sniper brings us back the Eastwood who made Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, his magnificent paired war films from 2006, and reminds us that the theatre of war – a stark testing ground for manhood – may be the ideal stage for this filmmaker’s late-career concerns. But what’s missing – and what lifted Kathryn Bigelow’s recent, thematically similar war films The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty into the realm of great cinema – is a sense of fatefulness. Kyle’s story, finely textured as it is, doesn’t tell us much about anything other than Kyle himself, whereas the intensely personal stories in Bigelow’s films posed bigger questions, broadening their outlooks even as they narrowed their focus. American Sniper is too direct for that, but it's still a welcome comeback for Eastwood.

American Sniper really shows what servicemen, or women, go through after they return to civilian life. It is rare to see anything to do with PTSD in a film, and American Sniper shows people how bad it can be. What really hits home, is that in real life Chris Kyle was killed by a young man suffering from PTSD after he returned home from overseas military duty. This copy of the film has alot of extra content about Chris's life.

This was an incredible story of an American hero. It was more than just another war movie with Clint Eastwood being able to convey what the soldiers go through not just on the battlefield, but when they get home and to their families. Bradley Cooper was truly believeable as a Navy SEAL and it was a great performance. I was moved on a number of different occassions and this is truly a film that was a must buy for my collection.