Cad's Army

Rating: 3/10 (4 April 2020)

Hardened tank commander Don 'Wardaddy' Collier (Brad Pitt) becomes an unwilling mentor to unprepared novice Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman) who is not prepared for war having previously served his time behind a typewriter. Nevertheless Collier guides his men through enemy lines in Germany, but at what cost??
So here it is Fury probably one of the most bloated and overrated war films that I've ever seen; instead of offering us an insightful and involving character piece Fury instead became a macho chauvinistic display of empty emotion with most of the characters behaving like the biggest bunch of jerks you're ever likely to see. This is purportedly based on US Tank Crews during the final moments of World War 2 which begs the question; were they all objectionable like the guys depicted here? I have to admit that it was not a lot of fun sitting through this film and the only character I felt any real sympathy for was Norman.
So aside from all of this what else happened? Well there's lots of shouting, noise, bravado and of course the US of A killing several Germans. At one point in the film there are some moments of quiet reflection which add nothing and only serve to elongate the film past its already generous 2 hour plus running time.
The acting is not much to write home about; the likes of Pena, La Bouef, Bernthal and Pitt are all in the film, but if I'm honest I'd struggle to remember their names or anything about them as this is clearly not important to anyone that made this film. Pitt's character becomes somewhat sympathetic towards the end, but even he is a persona that is hard to endure. Only Logan Lerman comes away as being a sympathetic character (perhaps that was the point), but at least he was someone we could root for.
Despite a lot of potential, Fury is far too superficial and thin to become really involved in and, truth be told, when watching the film it looked like I was watching someone else play a computer game so yes pretty uninvolving stuff truth be told.