Fury
Rated: MA
Three out of five
Now showing
FURY would be best described as a solid World War II film.
The film is centred around five American soldiers who make their way across Germany in a tank called Fury.
Don ‘Wardaddy’ Collier (played by Brad Pitt) is the leader of the team.
He is joined by Boyd ‘Bible’ Swan (Shia LaBeouf) Trini ‘Gordo’ Garcia (Michael Peña) and Grady ‘Coon-Ass’ Travis (Jon Bernthal) and newcomer Norman ‘Machine’ Ellison (Logan Lerman).
After the team loses their assistant driver, Norman, who worked as a typist for the army, is sent to the front line to join the team as the assistant driver.
Initially, the rest of the team tease Norman as he had never killed anyone and has not witnessed what the Germans have done to his fellow American soldiers.
Wardaddy tries to teach Norman to kill Germans, but he is reluctant to do so.
He takes Norman under his wing and teaches him how to survive through the war.
The others have the upmost respect for Wardaddy and always follow his lead, so slowly accept Norman.
And for the ladies, Pitt even takes his shirt off.
The film was quite gorey and reminded me of a typical Quentin Tarantino film.
There were plenty of violent scenes which graphically depict people getting shot in the head and the dead bodies were shown lying on the floor.
There are also lots of bodies exploding as they collide with bombs and bullets and you even see half the face of the old assistant driver which causes Norman to throw up.
Norman was also the sole character I actually cared about.
The other soldiers were typical war ‘tough guys’ and were not developed enough.
The film also left you with a fair share of questions; for example we learn Norman is a typist earlier on in the film, but never get told why he was transferred to the front line to fight.
There were plenty of pictures of girls in the tank Fury, but we never learn if any of them have wives (although it looked like Bible had a wedding ring on him).
There could have been more character development.
That aside the film definitely is action-packed.
There are plenty of close-up and descriptive scenes of Wardaddy knifing people in the face and shooting his enemies.
If you can’t take people being shot and serious gore, then I would not recommend seeing the film, but if you like seeing tanks go toe-for-toe and battles between the Americans and Germans, Fury is for you.
