How Much of Clint Eastwood’s ‘American Sniper’ Is Actually True? Less Than You’ve Been Led To Believe
Clint Eastwood's American Sniper may have been a commercial success, but it has some major inaccuracies when depicting Chris Kyle.
In a cinematic era where the majority of the box office champions belonged to an extended universe or long-running series, the success of American Sniperwas a welcome surprise. Clint Eastwood's biographical war drama about the most decorated veteran in the history of the U.S. military, Chris Kyle, took the world by storm in late 2014 and early 2015, finishing as the highest-grossing film released in 2014 domestically. With the conclusion of the Iraq War and the killing of Osama bin Laden, Americans were ready to reflect on the tumultuous last decade that transpired in the wake of the September 11th attacks.
