![]() The violence was turned up to 11, but the message could still have been handled with more subtlety. It might have made a great movie but Ayer’s storytelling is so heavy-handed it becomes irritating. It’s an interesting premise to take the moral ambiguity of the Vietnam movie canon and transplant it into the heart of Nazi Germany. For the troops on the ground or in the tank turrets it was incredibly morally murky just like any conflict.” “People often project the moral clarity of the conflict itself into the daily lives of the soldiers, but that wasn’t the case. “The conflict itself truly was this sort of battle between good and evil,” said Ayer, speaking after a screening at the London Film Festival. That’s not to say the Nazis are being excused-more that the Americans are being accused. It is the Germans who ride on white horses and surprise us with acts of kindness. As the Allied forces sweep into Germany in the final months of World War II, it is the American soldiers who are guilty of the most brutal acts of summary execution, throat-slitting, and rape. Anyone who thinks this movie is good fun should go on some kind of NSA watch list.ĭirector David Ayer would like to make a point and there’s no danger of it being too subtle for the audience. Fury is magnificent in some ways but the brutality feels very real, this is not the stylized violence that made Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds so much fun. If this was a video game, and it feels close at times, it would be the shoot-‘em up to end all shoot-‘em ups. As Wardaddy’s tank crew plunges deeper into enemy territory, the kill count continues to accelerate until we reach the movie’s final haunting shot, which shows a field of bodies splayed out as far as the eye can see. After about 90 minutes of murderous World War II chaos, Pitt’s gnarled platoon leader, Wardaddy, spits out the words: “It will end soon, but before it does a lot more people gotta die.” Acts of violence include death by hanging, rifle butt, boot heel, tank tracks and fireball. In two and a quarter long, brutal hours of Fury, the examples don’t stop there. LONDON-You want to know how awful, futile, and dehumanizing war is? Well, it’s bad enough to make Brad Pitt stab somebody right through the eyeball.
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