If You take this seriously...

Rating: 4/10 (25 June 2016)

I have watched almost every movie about the 2nd WW and I did study history, so much for my part. That said, there were a bunch of brilliant 2nd WW movies in the last two decades, most of which were either German, Japanese or US-American ones: Letters from Iwo Jima, Flag of our Fathers, Band of Brothers, Der Untergang, The Pacific, The Thin Red Line,...You name it! Inglorious Basterds was kind of special and it didn't want to be realistic. But Fury does and this movie has some resemblance to it. Fury is an action movie, which wants to show the darker side of US Troops in Germany. The heroes are anti-heroes, but not quite. Some fighting scenes are well made, but hell - if the Germans were fighting like that in the 2nd WW, they would have been beaten in weeks instead of years. The movie was a butcher fest in the best tradition of Rambo. The story and plot are forgettable to the point that, like other reviewers already pointed out, every stupid cliché about the Germans and their troops was featured.
The movie has good features too. The acting is good, although Pitt is IMHO not the best choice as the platoon commander - he and LaBoeuf were there for promotional reasons. New faces would have helped to de-cliché the celebrities and their roles. The camera work inside the tank, the lighting, the props, lots of great stuff to see.
If You need some patting on the shoulder that You have won the war or some of Your family has been killed by the Germans, sixty years ago, this movie is for You!
For me, it's one huge disappointment, when I see, what could have been manufactured with all those props and actors.