Decent war film

Rating: 8/10 (17 February 2015)

I've read a lot of the negative reviews from the "armchair" generals out there. What these people forget is that this film takes place in the very last days of the war. Germany did not have the resources that it had just a year earlier. The German military was scraping the bottom of the barrel and the people it had left to execute the war were far from the professionals that fought years earlier. Apparently, panzerfaust were not that accurate. Anti-tank guns manned by frightened old men and boys were more likely to miss their targets than hit them. German tanks were not that reliable to begin with and one that hadn't proper maintenance wasn't going to perform well. It's the end of the war. Even the feared Waffen SS wasn't anywhere as good as it had been. My point is that you have to stop nit picking the "mistakes" in this film to get anything out of it. I liked the film because of its portrayal of the brutality of war. It showed US troops committing horrible acts that did happen and more often than you'd think. War is ugly and this film brought this out for all to see. The film was wonderfully shot with the latest technology and the acting wasn't that bad. The new recruit character put the viewer into the film. How would anyone behave if taken from a safe place and tossed into a world where you could get killed and if you didn't do your job, others got killed? Yes the film had clichés in it but you can't make a war film without them. Fury put the clichés together where they told a good story about the horrors of war.
Spoiler: BTW, 300 SS soldiers marching in broad daylight would have been ripped to shreds by the Typhoons, P-47s and P-51s that were continuously patrolling the skies over Germany. So, one could argue that the SS soldiers probably would have never made it to the crossroads to begin with.
With the exception of "A Bridge Too Far" US war films are full of inaccuracies and the "armchair general" will be waiting a long time to see a fully accurate war film.