Saturday, 4 July 2015

Tanks for the memories

Fury (2014)

Written and directed by David Ayer this film stars Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman and Michael Pena. April 1945, a young army typist is sent to be a replacement crew member for a tank fighting in Germany.

Not a lot is especially new or original about the story here but it navigates through a number of familiar elements with out going too far into cliché or melodrama. While the combat scenes are really gripping and certainly put you inside the tank the story does not have much in the way of thematic depth. Where the film is strongest is in the realism it brings to the action sequences even if the final battle goes a little beyond the believable.


4/5

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