Keeps focus almost entirely on few people thus failing to provide deeper insight to war terror

Rating: 6/10 (27 July 2016)

I believe war movies are the most challenging ones to make. What other situation is so terrifying? How do you convey all the emotions one experiences during war time? Making a good war movie is such a hard task because it involves doing great camera job which is vital, developing deep characters so that viewers care about them, building a realistic world based on actual history (if the movie is WW 1 or 2) etc. But most of all, real war movie has to be disturbing just because real war is disturbing. You don't achieve that only by gore but by showing how pointless the war is. And that's not easy to do.
Fury doesn't do that. It's got solid camera work, different type characters, some nice effects, in my opinion very good soundtrack. There are some scenes which bring emotion to surface. But they're done superficially. I didn't feel real terror while watching this move.
Americans are as usually to powerful to stop. SS soldiers are on the other hand depicted as almost not being human. The movie really focuses on Don (Brad Pitt) and Norman (Logan Lerman). I was watching other protagonists through their point of view because two of them permeated the entire movie.
In conclusion: if there were more external aspects alongside main characters, like other people's tragedies and survivals, this movie would be a lot better. But that might would've made this movie a whole lot different.
If you're in for some shooting - go for it!