The 2014 controversial Clint Eastwood movie finds new fans on Netflix

before Warner Bruce made a big mistake by giving the latest movie Clint Easto In the maximum broadcast service, the screen legend was out of the box office. In fact, the 2014 CV drama drama “American Snper” has become the largest movie at the box officeto prepare 547.6 million dollars On the budget of $ 58 million.

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The film depends on the book Navy Seal Chris Kyle, which has the same name, and records its four rounds in Iraq. Kyle, known as being the most deadly snipers in American military history, as Bradley Cooper played him, was famous for the full novel of Hollywood, which helped the film simultaneously to become successful and pushed controversy among the auditors who indicated the lack of impressive critical analysis, especially when it comes to the policy surrounding the Arab silver itself. like Fox Put it, “Distort deeply, why America went to the war in Iraq and how the war has already fallen.” This did not help accuse Kyle of decorating the truth, including his military record. Unfortunately, Markman was killed by the former Eddie Ray Roth in the state of Texas in a Texas filming field a year before his movie appeared.

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However, when the film was not the first time, not only made a lot of money, but also received six Academy Awards nominations, including the best image, the best adapted scenario, and the best Cooper actor, although he just ended one prize to free the best sound. Many critics also looked at the historical inaccuracy of praising Cooper and Eastwood’s direction. Now, the film is due to its appearance in an era in which its director’s films are going directly to broadcasting platforms instead of controlling the box office. Perhaps it will be a little infection for Eastwood to learn that “American Snper” is well on Netflix, but it may be interesting to think about how the modern fans of the film explained, which was removed from the context in which it appeared for the first time.

“American Snper” follows Chris Kyle while publishing in Iraq, where his snipers ’capabilities soon earn him the title of“ myth ”. However, this reputation also spreads to the enemy, which has become a bloody snipers ’output in the US military. Meanwhile, Kyle is trying to balance the intensity of his service with his family life in the homeland, where his wife, Taya (Siena Miller), and two children, are waiting only to find that the war affected their husband and their father.

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Looking at films like “Die Hard”, which looks like Dylan Sprose, can dominate the “Netflix” windowThis type of human drama shown in Clint Eastwood is not a condition for success. But it seems that the subscribers have taken this film anyway, as they pushed the American “snipers” to the first place on Netflix. The film struck the banners on April 21, 2025, and according to the reception of the viewers LetterolHe first ranked first on the most watched film plans in the United States the next day. Then he slipped to second place on April 23, 2025, but it is still in the first days, which means that there is more than enough time for Eastwood and Bradley Cooper to restore first place with a week’s operation.

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“American Snper” currently has a score of 72 % ” Spoiled tomatoesWhich may indicate that critics were largely courtesy of the film. But this is not completely true in this case. After all, in essence, spoiled tomatoes truly reduce reviews to dualism between “Fresh” and “Rotten”, which works for some films, for example Kevin Hart “elevator”, which somehow dominated Netflix In 2023, but for “American snipers”, there is a clear tension between the fact that the film is made well and contains a usually committed performance by Bradley Cooper and the controversy surrounding the hero and hero that is not incomplete of the Iraq war. As such, the percentage produced by the tomato scale does not really reflect the differences included in criticizing the Klent Eastwood effort.

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to Regulation Writer Dana Stevens, Eastwood was not some nice methods of its subject and not complete criticism of it. With the highlight of what she saw as “a perspective that can be recognized from the classic West that Eastwood has long been associated with,” Stevens saw the film as “an existential criticism of violent machines that double as a celebration of violence.” Now, this looks like something worth verify, right? Something not assembled together by an algorithm to calm us down, at least. If there is anything after that, it is worth watching or re -watching “American snipers” only to dismantle the monotony of “content” that flows on whether the Eastwood movie is a piece of blow or whether it is more accurate than that.

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If this is not attractive, it will be at least interesting to know how the American sniper moves on Netflix forward. At the time of writing this report, it must be removed The film is about real theft in the Apple Store that dominates Netflix plans For several days now. But it may be the most interesting thing is the ability to see how the film is received by a very small generation to remember the controversy surrounding the Iraq war.