Great production value, bad movie

Rating: 4/10 (12 July 2015)

A typical American war movie. Great production value, great effects and visuals, pretty to look at. The story however is rather dull and often not credible. What makes the film just bad is the often seen, stupid-as-bread behavior of the German soldiers. They all seem to suffer from the stormtrooper-syndrome, being unable to hit anything and charge into enemy fire while trying to attack tanks with their bear hands and small arms up close, just to get mowed down like lemmings. Laughable. Fury also features what must be the kindest rape scene in the history of movies. If the director decides to include a brutal face of war like that (and I think it's definitely good to do that) it has to be done in a credible way. But the way it turns out in Fury it's more that Emma is just a cheap slut who, silly enough, falls in love with the soldier after just a few minutes.
The climax of silliness is of course the final scene, where the heroic soldiers die their heroic deaths as expected, while taking out a whole battalion of aggressively shouting SS-Lemmings.
If you want to watch a proper war movie set in the second world war, watch "Das Boot" or "Stalingrad", if you want cheap entertainment without surprises, watch Fury.