All style and no substance

Rating: 2/10 (20 November 2014)

I should start this review by stating that I have read a lot of WWII military history which sets the tone here. The look of Fury was excellent and the special effects in the battle scenes were mind blowing. However, they just aren't realistic and seemed to revert back to films of the 60's and 70's where soldiers charge around without any regard to their own safety or how to deal with threats to their life. David Ayer should probably have watched Band of Brothers, Pacific and Letters from Iwo Jima before making this film. On top of that I felt the story lacked any real substance and the viewer never really engages with the characters, which made their nonsensical self-sacrifice at the end of the film all the more baffling. All in all a very disappointing film for one that showed so much promise.