FILM REVIEW:
American Sniper
By Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
The phrase ‘journeyman director’ usually carries negative connotations, but many of cinema’s
finest artists could be labelled in
such a way, simply for not making the same movie over and
over. Clint Eastwood is one of
the best journeymen we have today. Few directors could follow
up Jersey Boys with American
Sniper in the space of a year at
the age of 84. Where he found
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the energy to put together a film
as ambitious as his latest is baffling to this reviewer, who at less
than half Eastwood’s age gets
tired tying his own laces.
Eastwood stepped in when
Spielberg decided he couldn’t
deliver American Sniper with the
budget on offer. It’s difficult to
imagine Spielberg’s take on this
subject, which benefits from the
less stylistic agenda of a director
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