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PerfectJayDreadOct 25, 2014

A truly, truly terrible movie. It must be said. The fact that people would call this travesty a "good world war 2 movie" is just soul crushing in the worst way. It's hard to find where to begin in this review, so I may as well jump into it. IA truly, truly terrible movie. It must be said. The fact that people would call this travesty a "good world war 2 movie" is just soul crushing in the worst way. It's hard to find where to begin in this review, so I may as well jump into it. I found myself actually hating all the main characters but one, and the one I didn't hate is purely on the account of him doing absolutely nothing. The film tries to be dramatic and thought provoking but all it really accomplishes is making me feel uncomfortable for no reason at all. It shallow and sporadic in its tone and mother of all thats holy the final two fight scenes are a true travesty beyond compare. I wont spoil anything, but the sheer level of stupidity displayed by the German soldiers is unbridled. Its nonsensical in all ways. Even taking into account the wiggle room afforded by movie magic does this film just insult my intelligence by asking me to believe that the Germans would be so keen as to just throw themselves in front of the enemies guns. Its absurd and breaks immersion and is bad. Just bad. The movie was bad. The characters were bad. The German acting was bad (boiled down to "SCHENLL FRITZ SCHENLL SHUTZ DIE AMERICANA!". I walked away from this movie feels disappointed and just downright dirty for having watched it and severely regret spending the $10 I did.… Expand

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RegicideOct 17, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This movie was something far from what I expected. When going into a World War 2 movie I have nothing but fond memories of seeing camaraderie and people banding together, mercy and suffering, beauty amongst all the pain in the ways the soldiers interact not only with each other as brothers in arms but with their enemies as warriors of the highest caliber. Respect and honor and so forth. I also believe it's important to involve scenes depicting the depravity of war, war in all its shades from darkest moments, to light hearted conversations, to acts of valor beyond the normal human's comprehension. Fury attained some of these goals yet they were few and far between. It captured the depravity of war than went on to blow it into epic proportions with soldiers cussing at every five second interval, looking at women in captured towns as meat for them to rip into at their own leisure, and what may have been others was now, well, theirs. Fury disgusted me in this showing of barbarism, I feel as if the director looked at World War 2 propaganda and decided that was all their was to the war. I know very well that war has these incidents yet this often? It made me think it was some child trying to convince me of the brutality of his mother's beating by over-exaggerating every detail. The battle scenes were incredible, and executed perfectly even the explicit language had some sense when used in these scenes, aside from the overdramatic effect of some weapons they were quite well done, until of course the final fight scene. Ah, the final scene, where Fury finally attained the essence of camaraderie among the soldiers and made you root for them every second, until you realized they needed no help against the Nazi's they were fighting. To call these SS Nazis, soldiers was almost a laughable idea. The SS were known for their brutality and amazing battle skills, but apparently if you pit them up against a Sherman (a tank mocked by even the American's themselves when sizing them up to any other tank) they fall like flies, throwing their bodies at it until something cracks, refusing to fire weapons thinking it'd be safer to rush the tank and wave their arms wildly to stop the gunfire. You may think an RPG even in World War 2 was able to be fired from a distance, but according to Fury you'd be wrong, and even point blank it seems as if these RPGs can miraculously miss a shot worse than a musket from ages past. It's hard to believe these "SS soldiers" could even walk without falling over themselves. I feel if any veteran actually saw this movie they'd wonder why they themselves ever feared these spoon fed children. Some people might say "Oh, but the Nazi's recruited everyone at this stage in the war, in fact it was stated in the movie." in which case I'd say yes, it was stated excellently so in fact. One of the few moments where the American's seemed almost likable was when they executed the SS officer who hung children. But I would also say that although they recruited everyone, the SS was something you were not thrown into unless you deserved it. I found myself almost rooting for the Nazis after the forced execution of a surrendered soldier. Fury made our Golden Generation of warriors seem like monsters. If the director of this film (I had no intention to try to memorize the name of the director after seeing this movie) read into even a piece of war accounts by soldiers and reporters in the field, he/she may have realized the way our soldiers actually behaved was courteous and kind in most accounts, of course there were times when our soldiers were out of line but they were almost always stopped by a commanding officer. Nonetheless the worst part by far was the fact that Fury made the SS look merciful compared to us. I know the cliché of "young soldier spares enemy because of some level of compassion and fear" but an SS soldier? Really? An SS soldier would have killed him on the spot, yet it shows our soldiers ruthlessly murder a surrendering Nazi? This movie had few good points, I'm sure if any veteran watched this movie they would be disgusted at how they were portrayed. All in all the movie isn't worth the price of admission, it was a wasted two hours of propaganda to try to slander our Golden Generation.… Expand

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rybacksnFeb 15, 2015

One of the most unrealistic concluding war scenes I have seen. Makes Rambo look realistic. A single Sherman would have been destroyed in a few minutes in that scenario. The Germans did not take over all of Europe and parts of Africa andOne of the most unrealistic concluding war scenes I have seen. Makes Rambo look realistic. A single Sherman would have been destroyed in a few minutes in that scenario. The Germans did not take over all of Europe and parts of Africa and invade Russia being that stupid.… Expand

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mrdollarOct 16, 2016

Very very unrealistic scenario at the end ruin whole movie. Rambo seems way more realistic than this. You can't show enemy that stupid, one disabled tank can't take whole battalion. This tank would be destroyed in few first minutes of theVery very unrealistic scenario at the end ruin whole movie. Rambo seems way more realistic than this. You can't show enemy that stupid, one disabled tank can't take whole battalion. This tank would be destroyed in few first minutes of the "battle".

So many fake positive votes can't believe it.… Expand

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WWladCZDec 3, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is just another movie that goes with the formula "Our boys on the ground got their asses kicked! Time to paint a picture how superior our tanks and people were and how evil twisted (and in the retarded last scene) stupid all German soldiers were!" Spoilers below!
Oh boy where do we even start characters are very well done Brad Pit does nice job with his rough and well done acting as a tank commander (rugged veteran) rest of the crew is also solid. Story of a boy that becomes a soldier from total rookie seems a little too forced if you ask me because in one day he transforms into veteran-like crewman it is just too fast he has no trouble operating in the tank even tho story states he was not even in tank school. When we ignore few wierd ocasions where direct hit from 75mm PAK (I'm talking about the direct ones not the obvious ricoshets) does no damage to the Shermans the movie gives you nice idea what Shermans were made for supporting infantry and taking our defensive emplacements, also the tension would be pretty good if there would be any connection to other crews which die as the story goes on. Hard to watch is also the scene where Pit orders a Rookie to shoot German soldier which surrendered and begs for letting him (he tells them he has a family and shows him a picture) live but at least it shows that American army were pigs too WHICH IS AMAZING finally somebody had balls to show it so kudos for that! Then we have the crew and city scene where rookie and Brad Pit invade home of two women where they show the difference between rest of the crew and them. Rookie plays piano Pit shares some cigars and eggs which are cooked for them since they act like normal people and not like animals. After the rest of the crew mainly Shane from walking dead (sorry I remember him as that) comes and acts like morons and even tho rookie stands up to them Pit just sits there not teaching them morals at all for me this scene shows great movie making because you see his dilema on his side Do the right thing? or Keep your friendship with crew? he chooses the 2nd one which is understandable but still he is not happy.
The tank battle with Tiger is decent scene (if you turn you brain on it is flawed but keeps nice feeling of tension) of course you get the stupid non penetrating hits from 10 meters because logs aperantly stop 88mm AP shots but it was fun. To the last scene which destroyed the film that was so great until now. The crossroad scene shows how some **** can ruin great writing and acting with just one scene sacrificing everything good just to make a "Heroic" (also known as painfully retarded) scene. German soldiers would never act like this hell anybody with a brain wouldn't act like this counting ridicilous tactics of the tanks crew that by some magic work amazingly good, hilarious inaccruracy/loses of the Germans, and overdone to the max aspect for heroic death of crew was just funny to me. Also there were some about 1minute pauses in the scene don't you think they would be flanked by that time? this scene has just flaws all over the place. First even if you fire at the best possible moment when the soldies scatter you won't get so many of them and no F8cking way they will keep up frontal attack (every soldier back then knew that front of the tank is the most dangerous place) they would be flanked and destroyed in about 2 minutes with the Germans sustaining only small loses. Second tank gets flanked so crew pops out and guns everybody down I was near walking out of the cinema! If you pop up like this you get killed in a second before you get your hands out of hatch and line up you would be dead, also why the German soldiers can't do the same shooting like tank crew when they have much more experience with? Third two panzerfausts from point blank do not penetrate and required to be point blank! Those things had range... Only the last one does penetrate and even then deals no damage to the tank only kills one crewman which is impossible shrapnell and munition explosion would wipe the crew. Fourth 3-4 shots to the chest from sniper seem like bb gun and Pit just slides down to the tank continues talking for 2 minutes.
Last scene of the film and even tho we see that **** talk about "SS ALL BAD U KILL THEM ALL HURRR DURRR!" is not true because German soldier with SS markings sees him but doesn't raise alarm.
I feel that crossroad scene needs to be deleted or edited it is way too stupid for audience with brains and way too overdone to be believable by the rest. If the last scene wouldn't be there it would be 8/10 this way it has to be 3/10 sorry to those who done a good film until that point I feel if we ignore this heroic nonsense we won't get good war movies. Thanks everyone for reading this Vladimir Vojta Cech Republic… Expand

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mustard_tigerApr 9, 2015

Total ****

Not one single second of original movie here, its like they took a bunch of BS move tropes and blended them together. Then drank the trope smoothie, **** it out and that's how this movie was made. Watch anything before youTotal ****

Not one single second of original movie here, its like they took a bunch of BS move tropes and blended them together. Then drank the trope smoothie, **** it out and that's how this movie was made.

Watch anything before you see this, I know you are thinking what I thought. Hey its a WW2 movie about tanks and I like thanks. Could be cool to see tanks in action in nice HD, I heard they used a real tiger.... don't fall for that. Well if you do, download it and skip ever scene that doesn't involve a tank.… Expand

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VandykeNov 1, 2014

Formulaic and nothing new, not to mention unrealistic. The swaggering band of diverse brothers do it again: single handily taking on Nazi German to save the day in swashbuckling style. And their charms are so strong, that even rape victimsFormulaic and nothing new, not to mention unrealistic. The swaggering band of diverse brothers do it again: single handily taking on Nazi German to save the day in swashbuckling style. And their charms are so strong, that even rape victims end up falling for them. Brad Pitt's hair remains amazingly slicked back throughout the movie: I want his hair gel.… Expand

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d3sm0ndNov 28, 2014

Completely ridiculous and unbelievable, couldn't me more cliche. Not worth watching, Some decent war scenes ruined by a dumb and biased story. Brad Pitt is horrible in the lead role.

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benuttyOct 21, 2014

I'm not sure I'll see a film this year that I'm more disappointed in than this one. Good acting kept from being great because of an unfortunate script and genuinely bad editing. Also, is there anything worse than title and end creditI'm not sure I'll see a film this year that I'm more disappointed in than this one. Good acting kept from being great because of an unfortunate script and genuinely bad editing. Also, is there anything worse than title and end credit sequences that don't match the film--neither aesthetically or tonally?… Expand

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ScottGentileOct 27, 2014

This movie doesn't just fail on authenticity, but it fails on common sense. What a waste as it clearly aims and succeeds on some levels creating the gritty realism of war, but when will some film makers figure out that you need to have RamboThis movie doesn't just fail on authenticity, but it fails on common sense. What a waste as it clearly aims and succeeds on some levels creating the gritty realism of war, but when will some film makers figure out that you need to have Rambo style combat to entertain the masses. You can have both.

Another aspect that can be a bit painful to watch was perhaps explained when I saw in the credits "Executive Producer: Brad Pitt." I have enjoyed some of Brad Pitt's acting over the years (Moneyball), but this explains a lot as his character was just a bit too perfect and one dimensional. My reaction to this movie was very similar to that of Word War Z – yawn...

Fury will not stand the test of time and it will be just another forgotten war movie.… Expand

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koko000Dec 1, 2014

Terrible.
I had the Team America song " America... f*!? yeah!" in my head throughout the whole movie.
It seemed as if the US marines has paid for this war glorifying murder of history, with a sprinkle of holy war bible references thrown inTerrible.
I had the Team America song " America... f*!? yeah!" in my head throughout the whole movie.
It seemed as if the US marines has paid for this war glorifying murder of history, with a sprinkle of holy war bible references thrown in for good measure. A ridiculous one sided portrayal of WW2 events. Avoid… Expand

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deadsparrowDec 9, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The critics' reviews of Fury, at least the ones I read, led me to expect a realistic depiction of tank warfare in WW2, an exciting story line and some reasonable acting. The acting was OK and the characters generally seemed to be trying hard despite the formulaic roles: tough but caring Sarge (Pitt), mandatory minority (Pena, a Mexican-American since the army was segregated at the time), bible-thumping Southerner (LaBeouf), sensitive-rookie-who-becomes-a-man-after-the-ordeal- of-combat( (Lerman) and the psychotic cop from Walking Dead (Bernthal). There is plenty of activity but it is comic book, juvenile stuff and the writer of this epic was obviously never in the army and never saw action. Nor has he bothered to read any realistic accounts of people who have been there. Had he done so he would have known that no tank regiment drives in to a town for a showdown through groups of wandering civilians who don't seem to be aware there's a war on. He would have known that preparing to ambush a relieving German column, some of whose members are clearly shown shouldering panzerfausts (aka bazookas or RPGs), with a single immobile tank would have been short and pointless. When the showdown comes, moreover, the Germans apparently forget they have anti-tank weapons and run around the tank like Red Indians around a covered wagon, which allows many of them to be gunned down like ...Red Indians. As In Saving Private Ryan, the hero dies a soldier's death or at least the sort of death Ayers imagines heroic soldiers die. That is, after the Germans finally get around to lobbing a couple of grenades in the tank Pitt's corpse is not painted to the interior as would happen with an explosion in a confined spaces. His body reclines heroically in its final pose, all limbs attached, where it is found by the rookie after he crawls back in to the tank after his life has been inexplicably spared by an SS trooper who discovers him hiding underneath it. A good movie for 12 year old boys but not for adults..… Expand

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danigras1978Jan 3, 2015

Seriously... This movie lacks realism. Good Poduction Design, but every single time a battle started bulets were portrayed as green or red laser beams. It looked more like a start trek movie than WWII. Acting was alright, but a final sceneSeriously... This movie lacks realism. Good Poduction Design, but every single time a battle started bulets were portrayed as green or red laser beams. It looked more like a start trek movie than WWII. Acting was alright, but a final scene with a foolish group of five having an encounter with 300 hundred Germans and acting like this is something that happens everyday in the war, was too much. It was a good action fiction movie, but definetively not a movie that shows you the accurate facts of a war.… Expand

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RoadwarriorJan 17, 2015

Just pitiful. Apart from it's obviously over-budgeted price tag to make there is no redemption for this meandering fireworks filled flop. The producers actually resorted to using Star Wars-like laser effects to portray tracer rounds and whenJust pitiful. Apart from it's obviously over-budgeted price tag to make there is no redemption for this meandering fireworks filled flop. The producers actually resorted to using Star Wars-like laser effects to portray tracer rounds and when that stops being laughable it becomes irritating. The cast all try too hard to give epic performances for the awards season instead of trying to bring a human element to the ravages of war. The timing of the emotional pangs of loss is well out of context with the fear of staring their characters own death in the face and gives no emulation of the horror a real world war. Maybe it is the dogged script that lets the actors down but surely they read it prior to signing on the bottom line?
The idea of a tea party that is alien to the environment lends the viewer no comprehension of theme and is a complete disaster lost in translation of practically no point. Yes, that line makes more sense than the scene in the movie. Overall it just leaves you with a sense of trying too hard to be epic while having no backbone or real guts, quite the opposite of what the writer/director was, I'm sure, trying to achieve. World War II veterans must be holding their head in their hands while being utterly gob-smacked when watching this trashy homage to the true brave soldiers of the period. Boo! Hiss!… Expand

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arcangelOct 30, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Fury is a movie which I had solid expectations for, I thought it would be a ok movie about WW2 and that it would have a fine portrayal of American soldiers. However I was wrong. The movie starts out with Brad Pitt brutally murdering a nazi commander and that set the entire tone of the movie. This movie tries its hardest to make you "feel something!" Im supposed to feel shocked at how brutal and unforgiving this war is with all of the death and murder that happens but I just got bored of all the gore and brutality. The story is ok, but the characters are the spawn of satan, they are all willing to kill surrendering nazis and make the new draft kid do it, rather than interrogating him. You will find yourself rooting for the nazis more than the allies because the nazis do not appear as bad as the horrible American army. The ending almost made me lose my **** after they gunned down hundreds of nazis only the rookie is left and he hides under the tank. Yet a nazi finds him and let's him live! "Hey I know you horribly murdered all of my friends but hey we bros so I'll cut you some slack." Not only that but they take a innocent girl hostage and because the rookie knows how to play piano she develops Stockholm syndrome and bangs him wtf. Screw this movie and it's rape imagery and its horrible characters. Do not see this movie it is not worth it.… Expand

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AxeTOct 20, 2014

What a bore! Pitt is solid, but most critically it's very weak on story. Authenticity suffers since the makers were probably brought up on Star Wars they include lasers in a WWII film. There were tracers sure, but nothing like this.What a bore! Pitt is solid, but most critically it's very weak on story. Authenticity suffers since the makers were probably brought up on Star Wars they include lasers in a WWII film. There were tracers sure, but nothing like this. Artistic license to be pretty pictures? Fine, but the geek factor basically threw realism out the window. The supporting cast is too mannered in their performances. Michael Peña is not such a great actor who certainly is making bank playing the token Mexican in every other movie out there. Note to Hollywood: it begins to take an audience out of a story with this kind of over-saturation.… Expand

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teaguewdFeb 19, 2015

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. ‘Fury' is a film that manages to be something terrible despite having everything they could ever need at their disposal. All the ingredients are available for a gourmet meal, but somehow it still manages to serve up a platter where the main course contains velveeta “cheese”. Its not surprising, that this isn’t in the top-tier of war movies, but such a pitiful horror-show of cliched mise-en-scene flanked throughout with the exact same visual effects as the first few Star Wars Films(accompanied of course by the same laseresque sound effects) was not what I’d expected.
I rarely resort to the term ‘offended’, but I think thats exactly the feeling I found swelling up inside of me watching this film. As these catastrophic events unfolded before me, I was just on the verge of physical illness. Now the catastrophe I refer to most directly correspond to the performances of an otherwise noteworthy cast. In fact, as the main characters died off, I found myself feeling relieved. It wasn’t so much that I hated the characters, although none of them are the least bit likable(or more importantly plausible), but that there would be no more of their intensely cliched catchphrases, some of which were probably repeated at record breaking numbers for just 134 mins.
Its amazing to look back on the plot, and try to think about the narrative; what, if anything, happened? I’m not sure what could be said about this to make it more interesting. If you are looking for action scenes: there surprisingly few, and they are about as intense as a Telenovela, a bit like playing Battleship when you’ve already had ten drinks. Historical accuracy? If you’ve read more than three paragraphs describing WW2, you know there’s something off with this. Its simple-minded portrayal of the German army and its soldiers is overwhelmingly dismissive, to a point so superficially conceived that its jarring, not just for a war film, but any Hollywood movie. Needless to say it was not so compelling.
What was truly compelling, was the shoddiness of the film’s performances. Brad Pitt was Lt. Aldo Rain, taken down a few notches from exciting to uninvested. Michael Pena took painfully cliche to chalkboard-scraping levels. The guy from the Walking Dead was the worst, his stereotype of sex-crazed, moronic, inbred Southerners wasn’t even believable enough to be cliche(or consistent to be funny). Shia LaBeouf decided to go crazy over the wrong movie(Or maybe he just awakened psychological problems from the fist-fight-free-for-all the director forced the main ensemble to partake in). Lerman, the youngest actor, in fact did admit to being emotionally scarred due to this practice during production, and his performance was probably better than the rest of them.
Its hard to tell what they were going for with this ensemble, but not one of them was on the same page as any of the others. Alone they put up career-destroying performances, but together created a genre annihilating ensemble. I can’t tell how it worked out this badly. Every scene, every bit of dialogue was truly cringeworthy, the script seemingly generated by a computer whose inspiration was retrieved in bulk from the $5 DVD section at Walmart. Visually speaking, the film isn’t terribly shot whenever we get past the constant close-ups(the visual style complemented by somewhat interesting, highly-saturated version of the Band of Brothers look). Nonetheless its impossible to enjoy, cut up by editing akin to chopping the constituent elements of garden salad with a machete, and throwing them together in an ill-matching concoction of dressings. Amidst the constant gunfire sound-effects, everything stops for a failed dramatic moment about five times throughout, often when the characters face point-blank gunfire. In the final battle scene, consecutive shots bring everything from full daylight to darkest night. At his point, I decided to go to the restroom for a moment of respite, and started to wonder what else I could have done with my $2.50 besides visit this **** dollar theater.
In the restroom at some point during the film’s exhibition I saw a very old man wearing one of those hats Veterans sometimes wear from reunions. Like many, my grandfathers were in WWII, and I wondered what they would have thought of this movie if they were alive to see it. After all, its been a long time since the war, the youngest veterans of which would be around 88 years old this year, and here was one, barely able to stand up, but he had made the trip here to see this. That’s when I started to feel really bad. I had laughed when I saw the family of five walk in, all of them in head-to-toe camo, but now my heart sank. Maybe the people who were actually there deserve better than ‘Fury'. Of all the Hollywood genres, the War Film seemed to be historically the most consistently interesting and compelling. Just like that, I don’t know if that is longer any accurate. Maybe we all deserve better.… Expand

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oilregJan 25, 2015

70 years later still seems to be good time to release another WW2 movie, like it used to be every year since then. Unfortunatly it glorifies the unjustified brutality and inhumanity of the allied troops against the enemy after they waved70 years later still seems to be good time to release another WW2 movie, like it used to be every year since then. Unfortunatly it glorifies the unjustified brutality and inhumanity of the allied troops against the enemy after they waved the white flag already and put their weapons down already. As of today it becomes obvious that they gave a flying frak about the geneva conventions and the rules of humanity. On top of that trash movie its filled with historic lies from start to end.… Expand

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OzyNov 5, 2014

Brad Pitt, how many pro Jewish movies will you make in your life time? What about Stalin?? what about every other empire that **** the world up at some point in history - why are all the movies about nazi's. Im sick of this nazi crap.Brad Pitt, how many pro Jewish movies will you make in your life time? What about Stalin?? what about every other empire that **** the world up at some point in history - why are all the movies about nazi's. Im sick of this nazi crap. Schindler's list was the last be all and end all. No more please! We understand, Nazis are bad! Why dont they make a movie of the GAZA strip??????????… Expand

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joarwhoJan 30, 2015

1. No story arc. The main characters just go from one pointless mission to another.

2. Great actors, bad script. 3. Five american soldiers sitting in a damaged tank kills 200 SS-soldiers armed with anti-tank rocket launchers. Yeah,1. No story arc. The main characters just go from one pointless mission to another.

2. Great actors, bad script.

3. Five american soldiers sitting in a damaged tank kills 200 SS-soldiers armed with anti-tank rocket launchers. Yeah, okay.

4. Go watch Band of Brothers instead. Much better and more realistic and historical correct.… Expand

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Swanny54Feb 9, 2015

I just finished watching the movie "Fury" This is as bad as "Red Tails" Its quite obvious that the writer hasn't read up on World War II books. The first phony part was the German Anti-tank guns in the forest. If he read anything at all,I just finished watching the movie "Fury" This is as bad as "Red Tails" Its quite obvious that the writer hasn't read up on World War II books. The first phony part was the German Anti-tank guns in the forest. If he read anything at all, they are called the deadly 88's! Why? because they don't miss. And they missed all their shots in the beginning of the movie. The only real scene was the one tiger against the 4 Shermans. Micheal Wittman destroyed an entire 7th armoured division in the hedges. That tank is real life would have stayed and picked them off at 800 metres, and in about 12 seconds. But the ending. A broken down tank and demolishing all them Germans! C'mon....they weren't that stupid. Can anybody make a real movie? I wasted 20 bucks on the DVD. Private Ryan was just as bad.… Expand

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AGYPMar 10, 2015

Quite a lame movie, bad story line, unrealistic shootouts, to drawn out, bad script. Was interesting in that it was the first such movie I'd seen with tanks from that angle.

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macandcheeseDec 3, 2014

The director wanted to bring a new experience into the WW2 film world. While critic reviews talked about obsolete images of the 50s, the characters are just too plain and dark than anything I have ever seen on WW2. It must have been theThe director wanted to bring a new experience into the WW2 film world. While critic reviews talked about obsolete images of the 50s, the characters are just too plain and dark than anything I have ever seen on WW2. It must have been the attempt to grasp a reality no one ever thought of, but this reality fails to capture any kind of intricacy. While there was certainly brutality and ruthlessness in WW2, there were also acts of mercy - expecially in the fight between Americans and Germans. My grandfather was a German soldier in WW2 and was shot by a GI slowly bleeding to death on the battlefield when the Americans found and saved him.… Expand

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TheWinlockianDec 26, 2014

If you can envision a tank film written by a man who had watched The Great Santini way too many times, it would be Fury.
Though the strength of the movie was in the technical attention spent on its battle scenes, its goal was to weave aIf you can envision a tank film written by a man who had watched The Great Santini way too many times, it would be Fury.
Though the strength of the movie was in the technical attention spent on its battle scenes, its goal was to weave a story around characters whose lives had been forever-changed by the horrors and rigors of war. But these characters were so wooden and cookie-cutter you would have a hard time believing they might have been any different if they had never set foot on a battlefield.
From the word go, it’s like watching a tired frat initiation when PFC Norman (Logan Lerman) is assigned to the unit and, low and behold, he comes to earn their respect by the end of the film through many trials and tribulations, not the least of which were brought on by his fellow soldiers.
An old premise, but a good one. Yet writer/director David Ayer treats the matter as complexly as a freshly-promoted recruit eager to kick ass and take names before someone realizes he is too inexperienced to do either. Not to suggest Ayer is a freshman filmmaker, but at least out of his depth when attempting to make a movie that simultaneously venerates war and warriors while also showing all the terrible things war can be capable of.
While these extremes are worth examining from many different perspectives, the varieties of opinion in Fury are so few you get the feeling you are sitting with an old vet and listening to him rant about how war would be different if only the powers that be had fought in his boots, as though his boots are the only ones worth fighting in.
If a message did come across, it would be, “You don’t always get to pick your enemies any more than you get to pick your friends,” which can be true in many aspects of life. But for something that tests a man’s mettle as harshly as invading Europe and fighting the Nazis, you would think a theme with more gravity might have risen to the top.
I think Ayer was attempting to make a film about enduring adversity and losing your innocence that also happened to be about tank battles. I feel like I watched a tank movie with great battle scenes, and dramatic interludes well-worth fast forwarding through.… Expand

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BennytwotimesJan 27, 2015

Bad directing, bad writing, and bad production design. Rife with historical and tactical inaccuracies. This movie is a waste of time. A clumsy effort all around.

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BlitzhuntJan 19, 2015

Star Wars-like war movie that glorifies US soldiers whilst portraying Germans as evil imbecills. An unrealistic insult to the men that actually fought in WW2. I highly recommend the mini series "Band of Brothers" instead.

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v0rpqu4Feb 21, 2015

Complete crap. German experienced anti-tank gun crews on defensive positions missing 4 shots in a row when firing at 4 static (from their point of view) Shermans? Ofcourse the Shermans hit targets from 800m away while on the move. Easy.
ThisComplete crap. German experienced anti-tank gun crews on defensive positions missing 4 shots in a row when firing at 4 static (from their point of view) Shermans? Ofcourse the Shermans hit targets from 800m away while on the move. Easy.
This isn't realistic, this is another 'Murica stronk' movie.… Expand

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mascJun 1, 2015

Total historical nonsense! But even if you put that aside it is one of the worst war movies ever produced. I do not understand why Brad Pit is playing in this movie. Maybe he needed the money. :-P

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BedlamFeb 6, 2016

Cliche and predictable, hitting on all the standard emotional trigger sequences. Either it was bad or I'm getting old, or both... sigh. Oh, and the end sequence is just unfathomably unrealistic. A stationary buttoned up tank would get plastered.

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Dragon_FlyFeb 10, 2015

This movie goes out of it's way to showcase the neanderthal mentality of war where soldiers go into Germany to: shoot unarmed men in the back, have sex with prostitutes, and rape young women. It's a real slap in the face considering how theThis movie goes out of it's way to showcase the neanderthal mentality of war where soldiers go into Germany to: shoot unarmed men in the back, have sex with prostitutes, and rape young women. It's a real slap in the face considering how the Russians stormed Berlin and actively raped every woman and child they could find... a little part of history muted by education.

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DontBeSaltyJan 22, 2015

This movie looks nice but the script can eat my balls, nice visuals and a talented screen director are squandered on extremely poor writing and editing for the benefit of the mentally handicapped. This movie was so pro-America it made me ****This movie looks nice but the script can eat my balls, nice visuals and a talented screen director are squandered on extremely poor writing and editing for the benefit of the mentally handicapped. This movie was so pro-America it made me **** laugh, from the moment they try and make rape seem ok to the protagonist's character arc occurring in the first act of the movie. I like over the top action movies but this movie takes itself seriously and delivers only cock tease action with no meaning. Shia LaBeouf does a great job and hes got the best character but he's surround by retards and the movie isnt about him, he takes a back seat to Pitt and the dumb kid who awkwardly and pointlessly become Dad and Son completely changing Pitts character, who we already know because the director cast Brad Pitt as the exact same character from Inglorious Basterds.

The real issue with this film is there is no story, there's no motivation for the characters, there's no **** antagonist, there's nothing at stake so when they go off to do whatever for no reason you can't care. Nothing at all builds up to the final scene where you're treated to the same scene of Germans helplessly dying (as they have the whole movie) repeated over and over and over until the movie finishes is proverbial sloppy handjob with no finish, rolls over, farts and falls asleep as the credits roll.

I'd recommend the scenes when Shia LaBeouf shoots the tank cannon but nothing else, this is a movie for the extremely simple of mind who applaud Uncle Sam's freedom loving American soldiers bringing Gods divine will to the evil Nazis in their fantastical naive concept of World War II.

This movie is a good summary of the diarrhea stream of recent movies that people like because holy **** thinking is hard.… Expand

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PoprostuFilipFeb 1, 2015

The scene where one immobile tank fights whole squadron of soldiers armed with panzerfausts for few hours is just ridiculously stupid... well not only this one..

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jakjonesMar 31, 2015

Awful, war porn, unrealistic....................................................................................................dont bother.....................pitt sold out yrs back............................yuk

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YoloSwag4DogeAug 15, 2016

The movie has good production value and it can be quite entertaining if you know nothing about WW2.

It's a ridiculous movie. In the tank battle the Tiger is all alone. Tigers always had infantry support and were accompanied by otherThe movie has good production value and it can be quite entertaining if you know nothing about WW2.

It's a ridiculous movie. In the tank battle the Tiger is all alone. Tigers always had infantry support and were accompanied by other tigers. Second, Tiger crews were highly trained and did not simply charge across fields into multiple enemy tanks. The crews took advantage of the Tiger's superior range and tried to position their tanks where they had a tactical advantage, ideally involving partial cover.

The final battle is simply ludicrous. SS units were highly trained and always had scouts ahead. They used flanking maneuvers and panzerschrecks to destroy tanks by firing at their weak points. SS troops did not simply charge into tanks getting mowed by machine gun fire.

I just couldn't get into it because of how much creative liberty was taken. It's more of a WW2 fantasy film than anything else.… Expand

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bartcbemJul 31, 2019

Easily the worst WW2 themed movie I ever watched, and I saw plenty of them. There is pretty much nothing good I can say about it, characters are awful and pretty much flat caricatures. The story tries to be "realistic" but with the end sceneEasily the worst WW2 themed movie I ever watched, and I saw plenty of them. There is pretty much nothing good I can say about it, characters are awful and pretty much flat caricatures. The story tries to be "realistic" but with the end scene its simply ridiculous and unbelievable. Even acting falls flat with Brad being no exception. Also its hard to sympathies with a character who commits a war crime. Its more of a "video game in WW2 setting" than anything close to a proper movie.… Expand

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PraesiJan 12, 2021

The Amount of unrealistic BS Hollywood pushes down your throat in this Movie reached a new level in this ridiculous bad "Warmovie" StarTrek is less SiFi than this.

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HistoryBuff69Feb 28, 2021

This movie would've ended at the Tiger or Pak40 scene. It's so incredibly unrealistic for a history movie.

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BayernRalleOct 22, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. War crimes, „That german woman would probably **** you if you gave her a chocolate bar“.
Germans are unnoragnized idiots running into machinegunfire and 100-200 of them with Panzerfausts cant take out a single disabled american tank.
What in the actual ****.
Worst movie i‘ve ever watched.
0/10
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