Tiger 131, Anamaria Marinca and Alicia von Rittberg are a pleasure. But the end ruins everything!

Rating: 5/10 (8 July 2015)

Fury is the quintessential example of a movie that gets ruined by the ending. You can't discuss the movie with anyone into WW2 without discussing the bad turn it took.
Up till that infamous ending, Fury is a quite nice American movie about a group of tankers in a M4A3E8 Sherman (the so called 'Easy Eight') with the nickname 'Fury' on their way from Normandy after the D-Day landings to Germany.
Most standing out moments in the movie are the scene where the tankers visit two German ladies Irma and Emma (played by the lovely Anamaria Marinca and Alicia von Rittberg). The tension is played well and throughout the scene one actually really starts to dislike these uneducated 'liberators' more and more. Not often do I see an American movie on WW2 portraying their own soldiers as such lowlifes.
Secondly, the movie will appeal to anyone with even the slightest interest in German armor. And why is that? Because there is a REAL Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. E, also known as the 'Tiger'. The tank came from The Bovington Tank Museum. Tiger 131 was captured by the British in the African campaign. Even though the Tiger in the movie makes a rookie mistake which couldn't have happened for real during those fighting days in 1944 and gets taken out because of it, the scene in which the Tiger and Shermans meet and fight is the true highlight of the movie for any tankophiliac.
No matter how much I now want to write an entire essay on the intense fighting spirit and efficiency of the Waffen SS after D-Day had made it clear the (borders of the) Reich itself were in danger, I shall refrain myself. A trackless Sherman tank against 2 or 3 die hard Waffen SS members with Panzerfaust, what did you think would have happened? well, is this movie they take on hundreds of SS men and, well, the ending is so unbelievably improbable and impossibly bad. I can not, shall not give this movie more than 5 points.
Which is a shame because the presence of Tiger 131 and the Irma-Emma scene were truly an addition to the collection of WW2 movies.