Fury

[idbridge]

I really enjoyed it, don't really do war films but it was much better than I expected.

Brad's security guard was doing my head in and I was surprised to see Shia there at all, considered he is a bit bonkers (or whatever the right word is)

Was a privilege to see a film on its opening night though

[nosila50]

Was at the Edinburgh showing and although cheesy I do like a wee nose at the red carpet bit before the main event. Certainly found Brad Pitts security very funny. "How dare you put your arm around my man".

As for the film was engrossed from the outset. Horrific in places but then it was wasn't it.

Cast were excellent and it was edge of the seat stuff for the majority of the movie. Knowing that the war ended so shortly after makes it even more awful that all those lives were lost but for a few days.

Telling everyone to go and see so thats a good sign.

9 out of 10.

[stokerhills]

Was at a 90% full Croydon. I thought the red carpet got a bit tedious, about 10 minutes too long. As for the film my immediate reaction was excellent, a 9 out of 10. But why did the guy with the torch just walk away. I'm sure if it had been me I'd have blown him away. If he had I'd have given it a 10. Back to the carpet I was waiting to see what would have happened if the security man had caused either a broken IPad or phone.

[RevKeith39]

I always hate it when Mark Kermode tells everyone they are wrong and only he is right...but having read the above reviews I understand his point. I really disliked this film. It had the moral depth of Rambo and the intellectual insight of 'The Green Berets'. There is much talk of the 'family' of the tank crew, but this is cemented by ordering the youngest member to commit a war crime. There is no plot, simply a series of set-pieces. It's a Western dressed up as a war film. The central portion of the film with token females is embarrassingly awful; the women cook a meal, sing and allow themselves to be raped. The audience laughed at this crime; sad in a week of news about the case of Ched Evans. The big ending is crass in the extreme. 5 men take on hundreds of Nazis and throughout Pitt wears no helmet because he's a MAN. Come on, really?!

5/10 because of the technical acheivement and the editing, but 0/10 for sound quality, characterization and script.

[The Sparrow]

I always hate it when Mark Kermode tells everyone they are wrong and only he is right...but having read the above reviews I understand his point. I really disliked this film. It had the moral depth of Rambo and the intellectual insight of 'The Green Berets'. There is much talk of the 'family' of the tank crew, but this is cemented by ordering the youngest member to commit a war crime. There is no plot, simply a series of set-pieces. It's a Western dressed up as a war film. The central portion of the film with token females is embarrassingly awful; the women cook a meal, sing and allow themselves to be raped. The audience laughed at this crime; sad in a week of news about the case of Ched Evans. The big ending is crass in the extreme. 5 men take on hundreds of Nazis and throughout Pitt wears no helmet because he's a MAN. Come on, really?!

5/10 because of the technical acheivement and the editing, but 0/10 for sound quality, characterization and script.

Does Kermode not like this?

[jammy95]

Amazing move! Was 2 hours of intense bottle squeezing action. Highly recommend it, only if you are comfortable with some blood

[RAZORBACK]

Have to admit that I thought the trailer for this was quite bland but the film itself was pretty decent.

I was more impressed with the character driven scenes rather than the battles (despite them being impressively staged) and I thought the film did a very good job of showing just how damaged everyone was by they'd previously experienced in the war.

I think I actually preferred this film to 'Saving Private Ryan' so overall it gets an 8/10 from me...

[Celini]

Definitely not one for me; I have very low tolerance for violence in general and actually felt sick in my stomach for most of the film.

I think it was overall an ok film; at least a pretty accurate depiction of the horrors of war and apparently all tank related stuff (I saw the movie with an expert).
But I was very shocked by the trivialisation of war crime (yes, shooting prisoners goes against Geneva convention!) and felt very uncomfortable watching the never ending scene taking place in the house of the two German ladies. And young Ema, wearing a light summer dress in a cold April, in war stricken Germany. Gratuitous!

Won't watch it again. Won't recommend it to any of my friend.

[raj101]

Aside form the thrilling tank sequences, this film is an juddering lunk of a mess. Sorry, Brad, one too many cheeseburgers does not make a comic book war hero.

Oh but the irony of watching an audience enjoy the usual Hollywood diet of white gentile 'good' americans (pitt +lerman) tussle with jewish looking 'bad Americans' (Lebouef and the ugly one) during a mission ultimately freeing Jewish victims from Nazi oppression. Did it explain why exactly Wardaddy hated Nazis so much? The genocide of Jews etc? And how hes fought them all over the world when the US entered the war so late (correct me if Im wrong). Well, hes gonna love his country after it commits the Hiroshima genocide then, that was 10 times as bad concentration camps.

Couldn't help but think that this role, weirdly enough would have been better for the more mature Schwarzenegger, Pitt is simply too small for the limited but hulking comic book hero he is trying to portray. Ideal for this one dimensional role, probably would add more depth with his AUstrian accent in fact than the questionable undertones of a 1930s "Jim Crow" era Deep South one.

Lerman's scene with the German woman was cringeworthy, and his characters constant yelping just got annoying towards the end. His final fate "through the hatch" was laughably bad.

But if you want tank battles then that's here in spades, fun while they last until you wonder why they are still driving towards Germany when they were probably in reality by that time heading back home to their beds in the US..

[FBS]

David Ayer continues to make emotional films about small units of people. This is a slight departure from his street films, but this is no less brilliant. Completely sucked in from the beginning. Tough violence for the big battle scenes. Also some wonderful tender moments between the battalion. Michael Penn once again shows why he is an amazing actor.