For those who feast on comic-book violence, a much welcome wake-up call

Rating: 10/10 (9 September 2018)

I gave this film a 10 not because it is a great and satisfying narrative film that one would watch over and over but for what it accomplishes. This film is not plot driven, it doesn't need to be as it accomplishes all it set out to do. No punches are pulled in this one. This is an intense character study of mankind's brutality against his own. This is "probably" why this film got poor reviews because it doesn't have a plot and the standard Hollywood satisfying ending. It is gut wrenchingly truthful and most people don't want to watch films like this, reminding us how shit the world and humans are. But humans have short memories and they need to be reminded of history. This kind of film is very hard to do, many others have attempted this theme, some succeed but many fall short, not to a lack of trying. To sustain an audiences attention while hammering home its theme is a careful walk along a razors edge. Too much one way or the other and the viewer will tune out. Very few of this generation will have the patience to watch older films like ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, PATHES OF GLORY or other such B&W classics, but hopefully they will watch this film because of Brad or the war aspect. Whatever drives them to watch this film is a means to an end. Super hero and cartoon violence has its place and are escapist for sure, but too much of that will convince growing minds that that is what war and violence is, this film is a rude awakening to that juvenile thought process. Fury is one of those films that should be shown in schools, watching a film like this and similar films based on real-life drama, is worth more than reading a hundred books on the subject. History is not dead, it should be re-booted as often as possible to remind the younger generation that the world they live in has not always been this way and simply taken for granted that it has. As much as my life revolves around film, I know life is not a movie. I know the difference. Those that don't, are in for their own rude awakening at some point in their lives. This film reminds them that peace and freedom has the highest price.