The cast around him plays mostly stock characters, but vivid ones. But we get hints there are layers he’s hiding. “Fury” gives Pitt a story arc that makes him harder and more cruel than anybody in this crew, which he has kept alive since the North African campaign. Wardaddy is a bit of a fanatic about killing S.S. In “Training Day/Saving Private Ryan” fashion, the new guy has to see the carnage - tanks churning corpses to goo, heads exploding and the occasional summary execution of the enemy. “Ideals are peaceful,” the philosopher sergeant intones, with Pitt hitting the line as if it’s for posterity. He is, as such characters always are in such films, idealistic. They proceed to haze and abuse the new guy (Logan Lerman), whose eight weeks of training were meant to make him an Army clerk. Gordo (Michael Pena) - nicknamed for the Spanish word for “fat” - is the driver. Grady (Jon Bernthal) is loader and mechanic, an ugly brute and bully. Boyd (Shia Labeouf) is a drawling, Bible-quoting gunner. armor was inferior to German tanks, so every mission could be their last.īut the cynical crew still mutters “Best job I ever had” when the going gets tough. Now they’ve been given a replacement (Logan Lerman) and a new task. “Fury,” the name of their tank, is sole survivor of their last mission. In the last days of the war, Germany is lashing out with a suicidal fatalism - fanatical S.S.troops, old men, boys and girls are being sacrificed in one last Nazi blood purge. The sergeant’s “war name” is Wardaddy, and we meet him as his battle weary crew delivers a dead comrade to base. “Fury,” written and directed by David “Training Day” Ayer, takes us into the claustrophobic confines of a tank and makes a fine star vehicle for Pitt, if not the most original march down World War II lane. It’s still a B-movie.īut even a B-movie stuffed with cliches can be gripping. Firefights have a visceral, video-game immediacy. The grit is bloodier and R-rated now, as is the combat jargon. “Fury” is the sort of World War II movie Hollywood used to churn out four or five times a year - a gritty, grunt’s eye-view of combat. This bit of heroics isn’t “what I wanted to do,” Brad Pitt’s battle-scarred sergeant, and a hundred movie sergeants before him, growl.
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