What a waste

Rating: 4/10 (21 November 2014)

I really wanted to like Fury. The director talked about how he wanted to be accurate, how he consulted with veterans, got the only still functional Tiger and so on. Well, he couldn't fail harder.
Firstly, you will notice all the clichés that every Hollywood war movie needs and the good ones avoid. I almost think the writers have a cliché checklist and make sure they don't miss any. Now the tanks are pretty well done. Too bad they only got a single Tiger to represent the German panzer might so if you expect tanks battles in a tank moviewell, not today. While the tanks are pretty accurate the fighting made me laugh. The Germans managed to miss fully visible tanks at 300m but whenever they hit, the tank explodes or is at least set on fire. While this did happen the chances were pretty slim. If those chances were low then the Tiger fight involved 1 : million chance represented by diverting a shell with some logs attached to the side of the tank. The FX guys are clearly StarWars fans as I find no explanation for tracers being as bright. On the other hand, the grim reality of war is well depicted and some of the dialogues and crew interaction work well.
*Heavy spoiler ahead!* I can't find words to describe the final fight. Imagine the most ridiculous fight you've ever seen. No, Rambo doesn't cut it because the enemies are mostly trying to kill him. Now, here we have 300 SS idiots whose only purpose in life is to stand in front of Fury and get shredded. Then they take a break and repeat. While they did carry panzerfausts 10min earlier, they probably dumped them or just prefer to use handguns to engage a tank. When frontal handgun assault fails for some reason their wise leader decides to use some panzerfausts after all. At 10m all you have to do is to point it at the tank with the right end but a certain Wafen SS expert manages to miss anyway. To compensate for their stupidity, the crew forgot to stock up on shells or decided that 10-15 shells will do when heading into enemy territory. They did not, however, forgot to bring hand grenades, which are very useful inside a tank and are a must for another cliché from the checklist. There is more but I believe you get the picture.