Tanked up

Rating: 3/10 (18 February 2015)

Fury is certainly an infuriating film. I think the makers had high hopes that this would be a serious Oscar contender but clichéd characters, ethically suspect scenes and laughable battle sequences very much kibosh it.
Brad Pitt plays a battle hardened tank commander. Logan Lerman is the newbie innocent. However Lerman soon learns to kill as the rest of the weary crew are willing to kill injured German soldiers or soldiers that have surrendered because you know war is hell and all that.
When the soldiers arrive at a village, you fear for the local women from the American soldiers as rape is very much on the agenda. Now I am aware that atrocities were committed by Allied troops as well in World War 2, but 70 years later does the director seriously think I will be cheering for this motley crew!
Director David Ayer as in his previous film, End of Watch wants to bring a video game style in his battle sequences. Tracer fire is made to look like laser fire giving it a Star Wars style sheen. However when the battle tank is disabled and the crew is at the mercy of the SS battalion, they hold out heroically as the Germans walk right in front of the fire and dies instead of thinking it would be better to spread to the sides and attack the tank from behind.
The film comes across as an exploitative cartoon type action film that Sylvester Stallone would had made in his heyday.