Surprisingly... I really liked it!!

Rating: 8/10 (30 November 2014)

I usually don't like films were pervasive swearing & violence - I find it neither fun nor entertaining.
Even far better than David Ayer's previous flicks like "Training Day" or "End of the Watch", which were so horrible & awfully made that that I didn't give two HOOTS about any of the characters, or what would happen to any of them! No this. No, I actually cared about a bunch of the characters - hoping they would make it through.
But, hey, it's because it's a World War II film - and we all pretty much know how Jews were persecuted & massacred horrendously during that period, so I'll REALLY give it that. And quite a bunch of these actors are Jewish, so I could feel the tense emotion they were going through when making this.
What interested me enough about this flick is Shia Labeouf's recent conviction with accepting Jesus Christ as his Lord & Savior - and I sincerely see why.
I surely felt that actor Logan was a far better character in this than his "Ham" character in the disappointing biblically inaccurate flop "Noah", near the start of this year - where playing a son that wants to defy & defeat his father who turns into a psychopath.
But, from be inning to end, I have to admit I was engaged! Fighting the Nazis was quite satisfying, the character development was helpful, the horrors of war a really-well depicted, quite on an educational level, and I notice there are negative reviews regarding the "house" scene with the two women - I found that scene really tense! Wondering what was going to happen next, the intention to slow the film down, because there's GOTTA be a break sometime in any big action film! And loved how Logan had a temporary love interest, Emma, who I found was really cute with Logan.
But I also certainly liked when the issue of G-d and the Bible was brought in. When Norman first shows up, he's grilled by another tank crewman about his salvation. We find out that this guy, nicknamed Bible, is a Christian. We see him praying over a wounded soldier and quoting Scripture several times before battle. That said, his faith doesn't keep Bible from being every bit as foulmouthed, boozy, and death-dealing as the rest of his crew. In fact, he rationalizes that relishing the slaughter of the enemy is a positive thing since it's "God's work." He intones, "I am the instrument, not the hand."
Norman, we find out, is a Presbyterian. His faith informs his initial hesitation with regard to following in his crewmates' crude and deadly directions. But he tosses those convictions aside fairly quickly in the bloody heat of battle. There's even a scene concerning the fact that "Jesus loves Hitler"; yes, G-d loves every person. But He hates there sin!
For his part, Sgt. Collier generally scoffs at the idea of God's hand being involved in their lives, even though he later demonstrates some knowledge of the Bible by quoting from the book of Isaiah. I do agree with the line of "The love of the Father not being on those who've got the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, being of the world, but no the Father."
This movie wants to make sure we know that, smell that and chew on that phrase. In fact, Fury rubs our cinematic faces in two hours of grimy, dirty, intensely ferocious, charred-flesh misery to make sure the point comes through is crystal clear fashion.
Some will see that unflinching glimpse at perpetual bloodshed and gray-smoking destruction as something of an antiwar declaration. They'll see a cautionary tale of men hollowed out and broken by the unspeakable horrors they've witnessed.
Others will see this pic as a one-dimensional splatter-fest dressed up in khaki Army fatigues, with limbs innumerable being severed by large-caliber machine gun fire and mortar rounds in a story of brutal, hard-fisted soldiers battling a Nazi evil even more wicked than themselves.
Everyone will be right. The film's creators crafted it that way on purpose. But no matter which interpretive path you take, what seems inarguable is how profanely foul, excruciatingly graphic, unwaveringly nihilistic and downright ugly it all remains.
8/10
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