Would have been great as a cartoon.

Rating: 5/10 (15 February 2015)

I love a good war movie. Unfortunately, "Fury" isn't one. I should have know by the somewhat surreal opening scene that I wasn't going see something in the vain of classics like "A Bridge Too Far", "The Longest Day" or "Saving Private Ryan". Instead, what I got was a cross between "Kelly Hero's" and (Jon Bernthal's presence notwithstanding) "The Walking Dead."
There are two big problems with "Fury." The first is the ridiculous (or perhaps, standard) one dimensional characters. There isn't a character in the movie that has any depth. I think there was an attempt to make Wardaddy a bit deeper by stealing the scene from "Saving Private Ryan" where Wardaddy sneaks off behind a tank for a quick cry.
The second problem is with the fighting, especially at the end of the movie when the tank is surrounded, at night. The Germans were particularly good fighters and would not have spent a couple of hours running around in front of a tank getting machine gunned. Not when they could have quickly run around the back and put a couple of Panzerfaust rounds in the turret.
As a pure action and explosion movie, Fury does deliver, especially if you pretend it is very well drawn cartoon.