A splatter house movie dressed in combat fatigues

Rating: 3/10 (22 March 2015)

I didn't expect this film to be historically accurate, and it wasn't. So no problem there.
The off action parts are very interesting showing the brutality of war and capturing it from a few different angles. You see a slither of the conflict from the view point of Americans, German civilians, Nazi supporters and the German soldiers.
People's heads explode, they get their faces shot off and limbs amputated by bullets; it is very graphic and feels a bit glorified.
Also it doesn't go far enough; victims of the Nazis dangle from lampposts but when it comes to the horror of carpet bombing civilian centres there is only a glib one liner from Brad about a city being on fire.
Then we come to the real problem. The action! It is rubbish! Lets ignore the indestructible qualities of Brad's tank and its shell resistant plank of wood. Inevitably the campaign pivots on 'Fury' having to fight a crack SS battalion. Unfortunately these guys had obviously missed their firing range training and didn't realise you can shot guns from a distance. So they run back and forth in front of Fury's blazing guns and are mowed down like wheat.
It is extremely tedious to watch. Why does Hollywood do this? If you are building up to a battle then don't make the bad guys useless donkeys.
The majority of the action sequences is in this vein, pointless and boring.