Quartile rating: 5.5/10 · 1 rating
Join director Clint Eastwood and his creative team, along with Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller, as they overcome enormous creative and logistic obstacles to make a film that brings the truth of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle's story to the screen.
A standard making-of documentary short tied to American Sniper, this piece offers modest behind-the-scenes access to Eastwood, Cooper, and Miller but follows the well-worn formula of promotional featurettes. The cinematography is functional at best, relying on B-roll and talking-head interviews typical of EPK material. There is little narrative arc or editorial ambition, and the ending resolves predictably by celebrating the finished film. Acting insight from Cooper and Miller provides mild interest, but overall this is a by-the-numbers promotional supplement rather than a standalone documentary achievement.