Review by Bob Ignizio
Brad Pitt plays Don “Wardaddy”
Collier, Sergeant in charge of the crew on board the eponymous
Sherman tank in the WWII drama FURY.
He's just lost his bow gunner, and the replacement he's been given is
a typist with no battle experience named Norman (Logan Leman).
Wardaddy isn't too happy about it, but he has no choice but to get
this new member of the team battle hardened as fast as he can with
the help of his crew – Boyd "Bible" Swan (Shia LeBouf),
Trini “Gordo” Garcia (Michael Pena), and Grady “Coon-ass”
Travis (Jon Bernthal) – all of whom have been serving together for
years.
Covered in mud,
blood, and grease and utterning a near constant stream of profanities
and vulgarities, the men of Fury go on a series of increasingly
dangerous missions inside Nazi Germany during the final days of the
war. The Germans may be losing, but they're still fighting with all
they have, at least in part due to the threat of execution by SS
soldiers if they refuse. Even young children have been forced to
decide between putting on a uniform and grabbing a gun, or being hung
from a post with a sign proclaiming their cowardice around their
necks.
FURY
is a little bit DAS BOOT,
a little bit SAVING PRIVATE RYAN,
and a little bit 300
(in a tank, natch). Even when its plot slips into war movie cliches
(and the more accurate depiction of brutality aside, it does), the
cast and David Ayer's (END OF WATCH)
direction ensure that it remains compelling. And yes, say what you will about his recent odd behavior, but even Shia LeBouf is good here. It's not a pleasant
movie to watch unless you like seeing human beings turned into
hamburger every few minutes, but it does its job of showing us that
war is Hell in grim style. 3 out of 4 stars.
When I first saw this title come up I had the bad feeling it was yet-another-Marvel-superhero-adaptation of Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos. Because movies are basically all comic books these days. Did you sit through all the closing credits to see if Brad Pitt doesn't have postwar plastic surgery to come out as Samuel L. Jackson and go to work for SHIELD?
ReplyDeleteFury is a solid addition to the war movie catalog. Good story and great cast. It's been a while since I've seen a WWII movie from the perspective of a tank crew, so that was interesting as well.
ReplyDeleteI saw the movie, that was interesting.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was awesome, although they seemed to use tracer rounds, which were used for the 1st time in 2nd world war although not to that extent, im being picky and it did actually make the movie quite visually epic, another movie which i think i can compare is pacific rim based on the shear entertainment factor!
ReplyDeleteI would say its up there with my favorite war movie, not quite overtaking full metal jacket, but its probably my favorite ww2 movie