Fury is the name given on a Sherman Tank that's led by Sgt. Don "Wardaddy" Collier (Brad Pitt) and his men gunner Boyd "Bible" Swan (Shia LaBeouf in his best performance so far since his Transformers days), driver Trini "Gordo" Garcia (Michael Pena), loader mechanic Grady "Coon-Ass" Travis (Jon Bernthal from The Walking Dead) and new guy Norman Ellison (The Perks of Being a Wallflower's Logan Lerman), as they navigate their way thru Nazi Germany in the last days of World War II. The end may be near but the enemy is still giving a fight to the finish.
Directed by David Ayer who made the commendable LA cop movie 2012's End of Watch, Fury may bear some similarity to it rather than what most people compare to which is Saving Private Ryan. The graphic gore and war violence are the only things similar to Spielberg's masterpiece. Fury is more on the camaraderie of men put together in a sea of uncertainty and danger that guarantees no happy ending for them and yet they still can engage in funny dialogues and actions and that reminded me of Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena's characters relationship in End of Watch.
With some remarkable scenes, great production design and a spot on musical score by Steven Price who won last year's Oscar for Gravity, Fury is not our grandfather's World War II film, it is realistically bleak but it sure is entertaining.
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