"Ideals are peaceful, history is violent"

Rating: 8/10 (20 May 2018)

Fury is an excellent and action packed WW2 movie by one of my favorite current film makers David Ayer. He is best known for working as a writer and/or director on a lot of excellent police thrillers. Besides the cinematic abomination known as Suicide Squad, I enjoy the movies he works on. This is unlike a lot of more one dimensional jingostic WW2 movies. The film is very gritty and violent and portrays a fairly bleak view of survival of Brad Pitt and his crew fighting the Nazi's and doing their best to survive inside a Sherman tank, which is inferior to the tanks driven by the enemy. This gives a fairly sound depiction of the horrors of war and what these men must endure. The performances are very somber and very good. The actors had great chemistry. The overall tone and mood of the film brings to mind the band Discharge, which would be a good aural companion piece to the film. Fury is a very good film, that is solid and well made.