re: American Sniper- Is this the best reviewed movie

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Was this guy really on the phone while Terrorists were shooting at him? Seems like bullshite but if it really happened I'll eat crow.

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Yes! He would call his wife and father in "down times at night." One time he started taking fire, hung up with his wife and seconds later an RPG hit the building he was in. His phone went dead and he called his wife 2 days later and she was crying because she thought he had died.

I read the book and saw the movie. The book is a lot of what he remembers actually happened. The movie does not try to recount everything in the book, but just gives a broad overview of what his life was like over there. Eastwood tried to make a rivalry out of Kyle and a Syrian sniper who was a former Olympian, but that was not in the book. However, Kyle did want to kill all their snipers to avenge his friends who were killed by snipers.

No way Eastwood could cram that book into 2 hours, so I think he did a nice job capturing the essence of the book.