A little cliché and predictable for my taste.

Rating: 5/10 (7 April 2015)

Fury is another one of the many WW2 films out there. It is an OK movie. Just as much as most action packed movies in which the Nazis get what they deserved. However, the one thing that annoyed me is that the characters were so typical in their personality, I guessed who would survived at the end about 20 minutes into the movie. Yes! That's right! And I am normally not that good at guessing endings.
Who do we have? Brad Pitt plays the cool guy who always seems to know what to do and how to do it. The Leader. The guy who keeps his soldiers in check. The one that inspires them to fight and be better men when they feel like faltering. As we so often see in movies of this genre, the leader is ALWAYS accompanied by a guy who behaves like a wild beast, another guy that seems more intellectual than the others, a Latin who is retarded, and and and a very weak guy who the leader needs to take under his wing. This guy does not want to fight or to kill anyone. He throws up at the sight of dead bodies. He cries and weeps like a baby. But guess who at the end will show courage beyond belief all of a sudden and inspire his fellow soldiers to show bravery too .I bet you guessed! The weakest link! And who will be the only one making it alive? I bet you guessed who because, it's always the same thing.
One other thing that is common in absolutely all the WW2 is the following: if we look back, and we try to be a little fair, the Nazis lost because they went to war with all the countries around them. I mean the whole world was against them. So you could easily say that they lost because of being completely outnumbered. War for them was plainly unsustainable. However, in every single American movie, there's always a scene in which a squad of about 5 to 6 US army soldiers decides to take on a full unit of hundreds of SS soldiers instead of retreating. All of a sudden, the Nazis seem to be the biggest army And guess what happens when 5 us soldiers take on 300 Germans. Yes, I bet you guessed what happens. One would think, that it took about 1000 soldiers to defeat the German War machine.
If you are not bothered by this type of clichés (I watch about 4 movies a week so I am really fussy), you will find Fury a good enjoyable movie. But if you are like me, a movie geek, it really feels like you can guess the coming scenes even before they have started. Everyone feels differently about each movie. My opinion: Fury is OK but really nothing special.