It may be possible that the success of American Sniper is that it is this vanilla safe war film that circumvents making a "statement" about the war. Often times, war films are so filled with messages and context that people get annoyed with them, when all people wanted to see was a proper filmed story from the war, nothing more. Oh and if you are annoyed with this one Bob, with the success of American Sniper you can bet your sweet ars that we are now getting a flood of right leaning war films. Have fun Bob, have fun.