‘Fury’ is the movie about Brad Pitt in a tank – that is truly reducing what the themes of the film really are, but also extremely accurate for the majority of the running time. Writer/Director David Ayer brings his gritty style and penchant for easy-going dialogue in tense situations to World War II for this tale of a Tank squad that faces superior German technology in the tail end of the war. As all Allied soldiers are waiting for Hitler to surrender, this group of tanks continues to march through Germany and clear out towns and simply “kill Krauts” as they have been ordered.
Logan Lerman plays Norman, the requisite rookie who has never seen a battlefield before he is placed as the second driver/gunner for Brad Pitt’s Wardaddy (yes that’s his nickname and yes he is a less exaggerated version of LT. Aldo Raine in ‘Inglourious Basterds’). Wardaddy’s team is unlike the others as they have been together through several countries and year, remaining in tact until they lost Lerman’s predecessor, whom we never meet. As you can tell, the set-up of this film is mired with clichés (as are a few characters), but with an interesting structure moving forward and some strong character moments, ‘Fury’ stands out as not a great film but clearly trying to do something different among the familiar setting.
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