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To some viewers hoping for typical movie action, this will seem like a cruel joke. But it’s not. It’s just the story as it was written, and if singer/songwriter you liked the book, you will probably like the movie. If you didn’t, then the movie won’t change your mind. The movie follows Swofford’s trajectory (played singer/songwriter with thoughtful intensity by Jake Gyllenhall) from wayward Marine recruit (he joined because he "got lost on the way to college") to skilled Marine sniper, and on singer/songwriter into the desert in preparation for the attack on Iraq. No-nonsense, Marine-for-life Staff Sgt. Sykes (Jamie Foxx), the man who recruited Swofford and his spotter Troy (Peter Sasarsgaard) into the sniper team, leads them in training, and in waiting where their lives are dominated by endless tension, pointless exercises in absurdity (like playing football in the scorching heat of the desert in their gas masks so it will look better for the media’s TV cameras), more training, and constant anticipation of the moment to come when they’ll finally get to kill.
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