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Fury Review Part 4

For all that I thought the movie was awesome.  In a business that claims to want to generate excitement but then produces nothing but the blandest crap ever this movie was exciting.  You get engaged with all the characters with a minimum of exposition and feel hurt when something bad happens to them.  The action was adrenaline pumping for sure.  The Nazis were evil, the Americans mostly good, and best of all the film had tanks in it.  Win win win.

Brief story recap.  Sgt. Collier “Wardaddy” (Brad Pitt) and his crew gunner “Bible” Swan (Shia LaBeouf), driver “Gordo” Garcia (Michael Peña), and loader “Coon-Ass” Travis (Jon Bernthal) get back from a battle and have a new recruit Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman) assigned to them as their new bow gunner (the last one having died).  They are given a mission to go help some guys against the Germans and Norman screws up, getting another tank killed.  Wardaddy tries to toughen up him up and eventually has him hooked up with a local girl.  They get sent somewhere else and an epic battle ensues.  Most of the world blows up.

Worth seeing?  Absolutely.  The only issue I really had was the blatant use of stereotypes for all the characters and that is more upon reflection.  During the movie I thought they were all cool.  You don’t have to love tanks to love this film but if you do you will be in pig heaven (in a tank.  World of Tanks image from our video game t shirt category).  Pacing was great, filming amazing, action awesome, and the characters well worth your time.  I’d say definitely not a date movie especially if your date is the type to focus on one little thing (like humans burning alive) and they bitch about it all night.  Guys film for sure.  Bathroom break?  Honestly I’d hold it.  It is 134 minutes so it might be a bit of a strain.  If you can’t go that long I’d say the dinner scene is the most disposable but even that one is good.  Try to hurry.  Final rating?  4.5 out of 5 Phasers.

4.5 of 5! Great!

Thanks for reading.

the Infamous Dave Inman

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