Fury

Brad Pitt leads a talented cast into battle in the World War Two movie Fury. This is a film that works as an all out action flick and an examination of the horror of war and loss of innocence.

The film starts as the Allies make their final push into Nazi Germany, a battle-hardened U.S. Army Staff Sergeant in the 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division named Don "Wardaddy" Collier (Brad Pitt) commands an M4A3E8 Sherman tank named Fury and its five-man, all-veteran crew: Boyd "Bible" Swan (Shia LaBeouf), gunner; Grady "Coon-Ass" Travis (Jon Bernthal), loader; and Trini "Gordo" Garcia (Michael Peña), driver. The tank's original assistant driver/bow gunner has been killed in battle and his replacement turns out to be a recently enlisted Army typist, Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman) who, it transpires, has never even seen the inside of a tank before, let alone experienced the ravages of war. This film follows the crew as they try to survive the physical and mental rigors of war.

Michael Pena said that filming this was like going to the dentist every day and you can see why. The claustrophobic atmosphere of being stuck in the confines of a tank are expertly recreated in this film and it really does make you feel that you are in there with them. This is both exciting and uncomfortable. Whilst this film has excellent commentary to make on war, the loss of Innocence (the taking of a town is particularly good) it is the standoff at the end of this film that blows you away. During it Pitt is almost a modern day Errol Flynn playing Custer. All the cast are excellent, especially Shia LaBeouf and Fury is going to go down as a classic.

Are you going to trust and follow them into the hell that is war? You should do.