Fury
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: October 17, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 47 Critic Reviews
Positive:
29
Mixed:
17
Negative:
1
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60
EmpireIan NathanOct 20, 2014
A persuasive, warts-and-bolts depiction of warfare from the guts of a tank yoked to an overwrought, sub-Private Ryan account of innocence under fire — so a hit and a miss. Read full review
60
The DissolveNathan RabinOct 16, 2014
Fury lives up to its title with its great ferocity, but at a certain point, it begins to feel like a macho fantasy. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonCath ClarkeOct 10, 2014
Brad Pitt pulls along this gutsy, old-fashioned World War II epic by the sheer brute force of his charisma. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 10, 2014
Fury is a punchy, muscular action film, confidently put together and never anything other than watchable. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyOct 15, 2014
It’s all very Peckinpah — or at least it could be, if Ayer had any sense of poetry. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyOct 15, 2014
Pitt, for instance, could've used a scene like Tom Hanks' in "Saving Private Ryan," where we learn something — anything — about his life back home and what he's fighting for besides the Stars and Stripes. Instead, Fury (the title comes from the name of the tank) just plods from one brutal, bloody combat scene to the next. Read full review
58
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthOct 10, 2014
It's not the most complex WWII movie you'll see, but there's no denying the blunt intensity of Fury, and even if it doesn't sustain, Ayer commits to staring straight into hellish eye of war and bringing audiences along to witness every gruesome detail. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiOct 17, 2014
It doesn't take long to realize that writer-director David Ayer has spent more time adding flesh to his battlefield sequence than he has in fleshing out the screenplay. The end result, while technically impressive, is a dramatically bloodless affair, despite the gallons of gore on display. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle SmithOct 16, 2014
But for all its 21st-century special effects, the characters, dialogue and values of Fury are straight out of the ’50s. The 1650s, maybe. Read full review
50
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallOct 16, 2014
Fury reeks of self-importance, a strange arrogance for a fictional World War II drama drenched in more blood than ideas. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezOct 16, 2014
Fury aims for history, and the contrived resolution shows a timidity by Ayer that is uncharacteristic of his previous work. Still, the action sequences, which use actual vintage tanks and little CGI, are pretty extraordinary and, at times, incredibly gruesome. War is hell. That’s entertainment, folks. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovOct 15, 2014
Fuller’s film is inarguably a stone-cold classic of the genre, but Fury, for all its cacophonous chaos and half-crazed characters, never quite reaches the shellshocked heights required to make it a bona fide pillar of cinematic combat. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonOct 14, 2014
This is an ugly part of an ugly war, and Ayer wallows in it. Instead of flags and patriotism, Fury is about filth. Read full review
50
IndieWireEric KohnOct 10, 2014
Writer-director David Ayer’s brash, assaultive Brad Pitt drama manages some evocative imagery and achieves visceral impact by enacting a hellacious atmosphere that never lets up — but Ayer takes the mission too literally, and winds up literally lost in the fog of war. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineJesse CataldoOct 10, 2014
The film itself is a lumbering tank of a movie, chunky, loud, and clumsy, mulching down men into meat as proof of its dramatic seriousness and gloomy worldview. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeOct 10, 2014
Though colorfully embellished with authentic detail and logistically complex to bring to the screen, Ayer’s script is bland at the most basic story level, undermined by cardboard characterizations and a stirring yet transparently silly climactic showdown. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinOct 17, 2014
The revulsion that Steven Spielberg maintained to the end of "Saving Private Ryan" is nowhere in sight — Ayer betrays his own values with a climax that’s like a hack gamer’s recreation of Peckinpah’s "The Wild Bunch." The final encounter between Ellison and a German soldier is meant to offer humanist balance, but in context it’s ludicrous. You can’t believe Ayer thought he could get away with it. Read full review
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