Went to see this film today with my friend Aj at the Leeds/Bradford Odeon.
IMDB says: April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and his five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Out-numbered, out-gunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Brad Pitt (Se7en, Fight Club) plays Don 'Wardaddy' Collier the commander of the five-man crew, Boyd 'Bible' Swan (Shia LaBeouf: Transformers, Lawless), Trini 'Gordo' Garcia (Michael Pena: American Hustle, Million Dollar Baby), Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis (Jon Bernthal: The Ghost, The Wolf of Wall Street) and new guy Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman: Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief, The Perks of Being a Wallflower). Other actors who pop up as fellow American soldiers are Jim Parrack (True Blood, Battle Los Angeles) as Sergeant Binkowski, Brad William Henke (Pacific Rim, Jobs) as Sergeant Davis, Kevin Vance (Sabotage, End of Watch) as Sergeant Peterson, Xavier Samuel (Anonymous, The Loved Ones) as Lieutenant Parker, Scott Eastwood (son of Clint, Gran Tourino, Flags of our Fathers) as Sergeant Miles, Laurence Spellman (The Libertine, Small Island) as Sergeant Dillard and the fabulous Jason Isaacs (The Patriot and Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films) as Captain Waggoner.
The acting is superb and though there is not an obvious plot, the film beautifully underscores the horrors and pointlessness of war, including how it can turn on luck or suck all of the little joys of life, so maybe this was the point, and it was great that this film did not fall back on the usual unnecessary gore that accompanies most war films.
Trivia: Many of the outfits in the film were based on real exhibits acquired from Museums around the World and the 'Fury' tank, a genuine Tiger I tank 'Tiger 131' M4A2E8 (76)W HVSS Sherman tank (formerly 'Ron/Harry'), from the Bovington Tank Museum in the United Kingdom. Reportedly, Shia LaBeouf pulled out his own tooth, cut his own face and did not shower during filming to add another layer of realism to his performance, all the cast (including Pitt, aged 50) underwent a rigorous month-long course of boot camp including a combat exercise manning a tank and despite this film being about Nazi oppression, the producers used security men with Rottweiler dogs to intimidate members of the public into not taking photographs of filming from perfectly legal public footpaths.
Other Sherman tanks used in the movie were:
'Lucy Sue', an M4A2 Sherman from Tay Restorations,
'Matador' is M4E8 (76)W HVSS Sherman from Jeep Sud Est,
'Murder, Inc.' is an M4A4 Sherman from Adrian Barrell,
'Old Phyllis' is an M4A1 (76)W Sherman.
Tagline: War never ends quietly. 7/10
#Fury #BradPitt #LoganLerman #ShiaLeBeouf #JasonIsaacs #Odeon
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