Truly awful film

Rating: 1/10 (11 May 2017)

The tank was good.....that and the Panzer were the most endearing features of this naive effort.
From the beginning, I disliked, actually disliked, the main characters. They had no redeeming features, in particular Brad Pitt's character. The young recruit was, I fear, completely forgettable. I spent most of the film hoping they would all come to a gory end.
The final scene, much commented upon before, was a travesty of stupidity, and continued the contention,well-established in so many post-war films, that German soldiers were useless. These ones certainly were, but then they did not write the moronic script, did they? It has all been said before, but crack SS troops, even at the end of the war, would not be as stupid as to attack a stricken tank from the front; although it has to be said that the final shot shows German bodies splayed out front, sides and back, so perhaps Fury had deployed some hidden weaponry, which we were not to know about.
The denouement reminded me of that other great leap of the imagination, the final scene of "Gauntlet", hardly Clint Eastwood's finest hour, in which hundreds of Policeman, armed to the teeth, stand either side of a flimsy bus and pour torrents of bullets into it. Apparently, film bullets do not ever miss their target, nor indeed penetrate through a glass windowed bus to emerge the other side.
That was tosh, and so was this.
With different lead actors, a different script, better direction and just a little proper research and common-sense, this could have been a good film; but even then I doubt it.