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Rating: 7/10 (24 December 2014)

Fury is not a realistic war movie. Fury contains palpable violence, diverse characters, and a series of gut wrenching scenes, ending with an astonishing body count. A great deal of the death may not illicit desired empathy and consequences, but for the characters fleshed out the audience gets to experience the finality of a violent end. Who thinks this a heroic movie? These are not heroes! Brad Pitt's character is scared both mentally and physically, and is appropriately out of place as a tank commander. Who chooses to be a killer? None of the characters in this film, and this is so much of the point of this fable, story, and movie. This is war, and war as hell. Glory? No! A point? Absolutely! This movie has something to say, and is crafted as such by developing film maker David Ayer - one of my personal favorite writer/directors currently making big budget American films. David borrows heavily from a wonderful (and apparently forgotten) author from the past: Jack London. Pitt is Wolf Larson, with his disguised brilliance beneath the grime and camouflage of the cynical, brow beaten soldier. Logan Lerman, the child like recruit Norman Ellison, serves as the audiences entry into the war torn tank, Fury. An inanimate object, but also character within the film. Fury is confined, simplistic, and an effective film. Nothing is hidden, yet the baggage brought in through expectation has, apparently, changed the obvious for many viewers. 7 out of 10