Fury (2014)

Coming from David Ayer who made some memorable movies in his career (Training Day 2001 and U571 2000 to be my favorites) and Brad Pitt in the cast I had high hopes of Fury. But it seems like Ayer was attempting to make a Saving Private Ryan but ended up losing the game. Don’t get me wrong Fury of course is not entirely a bad movie. But it is not what you call great. Comparing with Clooneys’ recent mega failure Monument Men this looks like its way ahead. But not really so. Monument Men at least spoke of true events and the plot was digestible. But this is more like Star Wars and quite far from reality.

Fury is a heroic tale based on the ending period of the WW2. Army Sergeant Don 'Wardaddy' Collier (Pitt) leading a group of tanks undertakes a deadly mission in the heart of Germany. When they become hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned this single crew must show utmost courage and bravery to face the enemy.

To speak of the good of Fury I believe the action sequences take the crown. When those bullets starts flying all hell breaks lose and for that few minutes the volume of adrenaline pumped is furious. And then comes acting. Dearly no complaints there as well. But I believe they could have done lot better. Maybe It’s something with the script that didn’t let them. Very good cinematography and set creation as well. The detailing is wonderful and it is in par with most of the high-ranking WW2 movies from the past. And for a movie of this genre the humor was quite good too.

But then why Fury doesn’t really make the cut to be great? I believe there is no true justice given for its run time. The movie goes from place to place with the tank crew but takes a long time to come to a point where the viewer should hang on to or have hopes of. The last battle is the moment of truth but the rest seems like some bitter justification to the fact that war is cruel. We already know that the war is cruel and we have seeing enough movies that proves the fact from the past. We want something more right now and Fury does not deliver that. And even the last battle seems too far-fetched and looks more Expendables than WW2 drama. These mistakes make this big production looks feeble and no matter how good it looks it doesn’t feel right in the mind.

Genre: Action | Drama | War

Director: David Ayer

Ratings: Genre 2.5/5, Overall 3/5