Fury, film review: Brad Pitt stars in visceral and brutal drama that reminds us war is hell
(15) Dir. David Ayer; Starring Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, 134mins
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Your support makes all the difference."History is violent," says the US Army tank commander Don "Wardaddy" Collier (Brad Pitt) in one of this Second World War movie's few quiet moments.
And he's not kidding: Fury is bayonet-to-the-face, grenade-in-the-stomach violent. It is set in the spring of 1945, when the Allies are slowly, painfully progressing towards Berlin, and its characters are horrendously damaged or deadened by what they have already seen and done.
All except wet-behind-the-ears young new recruit Norm (Logan Lerman), that is. His first job under Wardaddy's command is to mop up the blood and body parts left behind by his predecessor. "Just wait till you see it," says Grady Travis (Jon Bernthal) to Norm, with a bitter snarl. "Just wait till you see what a man can do to another man."
It is brutally ugly, and if we are going to tell ourselves war stories, then this is just what they should look like.
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