(Spoiler) Saving Private Ryan with a Tank, but not quite as good.

Rating: 7/10 (19 February 2015)

I enjoyed watching the film. The gritty realism of how it was filmed was spot on. The actors performances are all great. You really got absorbed into the story.
For these aspects i'ts on a par with 'Saving Private Ryan'.
Where it looses points (with me any way) are the absurdities.
Private Ryan and his little band of infantry, ends at a bridge that must be held because it's the only bridge for the Germans to cross. OK fair do's , logical.
Tanks are sent to hold a key crossroads. However, only fury get's there and is disabled by a mine (so a sitting duck).
Brad Pitts character, the veteran of many battles, a combat realist. Knows lots of German infantry are coming and not just any infantry either, but elite SS.
However, brave Brad decides to stay with the stranded tank. (Why?) Oh, because it's "his home". (Is he deranged? A few tankers aren't going to do much with a broken tank. Why not just withdraw ?) It's not like the allies are short of tanks anyway.
His crew, presumably suffering from similar mental health issues, decide to stay too. FFS
Fortunately the Germans are equally mentally impaired. Deciding to do suicidal infantry charges on a disabled tank.
Why did the main body of Germans, not just 'go round'?
Leave a few guys hidden to shoot any one getting out the tank?
After all the tank is not going anywhere, it's broke!. Even send for an anti tank gun while they wait?. The tanks not going any where, it's broke!
It seemed to me the film makers were looking for a similar great finale as in 'Saving Private Ryan'
But, Private Ryans decision to stay and fight made sense, staying with 'the only brothers he still had left'. To help them hold a vital bridge.
However, in Fury, the heroes decision to stand just came across as lunacy.
It made no sense and rather spoilt what was otherwise a great film.