Excellent rendering

Rating: 8/10 (15 March 2015)

This was an excellent rendering of life in a war zone. It defies the propaganda war films which came out post-World War II which portrayed the glory of it all. The characterizations were believable. The internal conflicts that the Fury (the 5 man tank-team) experienced, fighting to survive in a brutal war where humankind murdered one another, all the while challenged by their own basic goodness, was compelling. Brad Pitt's performance was his most mature. Fury is on the same level as Band of Brothers - showing that when a high caliber bullet hits a man's head, it disappears. It's horrific, but real. And like the film Platoon, one of the best renderings about the Vietnam conflict, Fury also helps to debunk the "glory" of war, demonstrating that innocence is one of its first victims, and showing it for what it really is - insanity with a uniform.