Fury (2014)

Absolutely brilliant

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

I think the only reason I give this 2 is because it had some genuine WW2 equipment in it. This is probably one of the most appalling, pointless, revolting and unwatchable war movies of WW2 I've ever seen. I'm 60+ and i was brought up on WW2 movies. This is just grim, dirty, filthy...and I'm not talking about the physical environment which is about the only acceptably realistic aspect of the film. This tank crew depiction almost makes you want the Germans to win. The Americans are virtually criminals. Mafiosi types. Something out of modern US urban culture of the sewers. There is a modern soullessness about this movie that does not represent the Generation of WW2. It represent the generation of post-Iraq and Afghanistan, of Trump on the way. It bears no resemblance to 2 generations ago. The soul ethos, and camaraderie are missing, absent. It might as well be a tank crew of a Soviet punishment battalion. The director seems to have had more experience with violence and destruction in movies than with history and the WW2 military and the WW2 generation. After about 15 mins I was ready to switch off in disgust. Americans always winning battles, Germans always losing. If the US army in Germany in 1945 had been like this, the Germans would never have chosen to surrender to them. Its a truly appalling misrepresentation of a generation. But then modern US film making is in general grim and dark...maybe reflecting the soullessness of Trump USA. I'll go somewhere else for WW2. European and Russian movies are much better than this. Hollywood is losing the plot.

A great performance of all actors with an OK story. What the film is mostly about the horrors of WWII and reflection of how the US saved Europe from the horrors of the Nazi regime. It shows how people sacrificed their lives for a greater good. The film does good in showing the gore and is a realistic portrayal of war. It does not take the level higher going deeper in the characters as maybe 'Saving Private Ryan'. Still a good movie and not good for the faint-hearted.

A grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945. Fury is definitely a grizzled and perhaps dark story into the life of a few brave soldiers and a rookie who are pretty much tired of their job and what their pretty much doing in general plus they have turned into monsters of their own for sure. The perfomances by everyone were pretty good especially Brad Pitt. The film has it's flaws tho especially the sequence with the girls was kind of weak to say the least but still a fun war movie for sure. (B+)

Having watched the movie "Rage", immediately there is the thought that the film was created to outperform the popularity of the Russian tank movie "White Tiger". But I could not do it. For someone it turned out a masterpiece, for me it's a failure. The film, which I do not want to revise for the second time, unlike the deep and intelligent White Tiger. The very final scene, when one immobilized Sherman remains alive for half a day, disgusts the film with its unreality. However, like many American military films. In order to make films about the war, it is necessary that this at least somehow correspond to historical reality.