Absolutely brilliant telling of a tall tale.

Rating: 9/10 (4 November 2015)

If you are familiar with Nabokov's, "Pale Fire", you may notice David Ayer is using a similar "secret perspective" to tell us the story of Fury. Just as Pale Fire uses crafted anomalies in the narration and index, Fury uses (less subtly) visual elements and vocabulary to suggest our watchers' vantage is somewhere else entirely. From the tracer rounds and Gordo's/Pena's fashion articles to the logic defying final battle, the seemingly cliché and predictable picture is transformed into an uncommon and welcome vehicle of storytelling. We are witness to history not through documented fact, but through a tale having long ago already transcended to legend.
One can reasonably expect Fury to be a serious war film, which it certainly is, but not from adhering to historical accuracy. It is a serious war movie in the vein of all war stories as exaggerated and changed over many years and retelling through the participants (and later, their succeeding generations).
I would ask people treat legend differently than sterile history. By doing so, you might find Fury to be a masterpiece in far-fetched war story (like many WWII tales our grandparents told us) and no less gripping or important than say, Saving Private Ryan.
Follow David Ayers on-screen cues and let the movie reveal itself! A movie of a powerful myth with grandpa's story as both screenplay and script!