Chris Kyle is a disgusting ass wipe who gets cleaned up by the movie majorly when he felt no remorse for his violent murders. In the book, Kyle refers to everyone he fought as “savage, despicable” evil. He writes, “I only wish I had killed more.” He's literally a piece of ****, he claims to have donated a majority of the proceeds from his book to VA charities but that's been debunked. And he's claimed to have murdered more people since he returned, boasted about it despite there being no evidence that he's actually killed more people (claiming he killed "dozens" in the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina in New Orleans, and claiming to have killed two carjackers, despite there being no evidence to any of this. He takes pride in being a murderer) and he even got sued for lies he told about the former Gov. of Minnesota in his book. There is nothing redeemable about him, and this is just him in real life, not pointing out the great amounts of racism and disgusting actions depicted in the movie.
I saw this the other day and I generally am not emotionally affected by movies like this but American Sniper is a different case. There are moments in the movie that are too almost too difficult to watch. The portrayal that all Muslims are 'all bad' and all Americans are 'good' is disturbing.
I just came back from the movie theater, and there were alot of people there to see American Sniper. Others got really mad when the film was sold out. Meanwhile, me and some other friends went to see Selma, which was released on the same day as American Sniper, but Selma is so much more better.