A refreshingly shot war movie about five "brothers", their tank and their journey together.

Rating: 7/10 (28 March 2015)

First and foremost, I would like to applaud the casting department in this movie. It was brilliantly done because this is the type of movie which needs actors. No, scratch that! It needs talented actors to really carry the audience from the very first scene to the very end. Mr Brad Pitt leading the ensemble as Don 'Wardaddy' Collier. A very engrossing and visceral performance as the Captain of the tank unit. Immediately commanding and owning the father figure role of this self contained brotherhood of men. This excellence of performances continues to filter down through the ranks, from Sia Labeouf as Boyd 'Bible' Swan, Michael Peña as Trini 'Gordo' Garcia, Jon Bernthal as Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis and to complete the fighting five is Logan Lerman as the wet behind the ears pencil pusher, Norman Ellison. This is where the heart of story lives, with these guys. All day and night. WW2 stories like this have been told a thousand times over, especially in this kind of genre. Unfortunately this is completely true but the massive difference here is that it's from a fresh perspective for a "war story" and the fresh perspective continues throughout, especially in the shooting style of the movie as well. Four lads in one of the most claustrophobic environment's conceivable, whilst engaging and witnessing some of the most savage, brutal, and most tactically fought tank battles they'll ever see through out their lifetime. By filming it in such a boxed hand-held manner, it fully immerses you as a viewer and that coupled with these outstanding performances creates this concoction that pulls you in so much that you almost feel like the sixth member of this dogged unit. Whether you want to be there or not. David Ayer is at the helm of this movie and has definitely pushed himself in a different direction in comparison to his previous films, which were very modern in comparison. Such the likes of "Training day", "End of watch" and "The fast and furious" etc. The shooting style in "Fury" is unconventional because it needed to be. To David Ayer's credit, empathy is the greatest reason why you keep watching these guys and really start to care about them because they're emotive reaction to everything they encounter is so human. They shout at each other and get on each others nerves. They joke and laugh at one another just to pass the time. They share the same pain when they lose a comrade in battle. It's a job, that's what these brave young men did and still do to this day. The crux of the whole movie is about this tight knit family group of brothers. The way they react to each other when they're in trouble or when they stumble upon something seemingly impossible to survive, there is that over whelming sense of brotherly love and respect for one another. This is apparent on and off the screen. It's an absolute pleasure to watch these actors verbally and sometimes physically spa with each other, you see why they were cast for each of their individual roles. To quote the film "best job I ever had!" I truly believe it when each one of these guys repeats this simultaneously as characters on screen and even more so as friends off the silver screen.