In the last months of World War II, as the Allies make their final push in the European theatre, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant named ‘Wardaddy’ commands a Sherman tank called ‘Fury’ and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
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Film Cast:

• Don ‘Wardaddy’ Collier: Brad Pitt
• Norman Ellison: Logan Lerman
• Trini ‘Gordo’ Garcia: Michael Peña
• Boyd ‘Bible’ Swan: Shia LaBeouf
• Grady ‘Coon-Ass’ Travis: Jon Bernthal
• Sergeant Binkowski: Jim Parrack
• Sergeant Davis: Brad William Henke
• Irma: Anamaria Marinca
• Emma: Alicia von Rittberg
• Sergeant Miles: Scott Eastwood
• Captain Waggoner: Jason Isaacs
• Sergeant Peterson: Kevin Vance
• Sergeant Dillard: Laurence Spellman
• Lt. Parker: Xavier Samuel
• Hilda Meier: Eugenia Kuzmina
• Medic #1: Kyle Soller
• Medic #2: Jake Curran
• Company Messenger: Eric Kofi Abrefa
• SS Lieutenant: Adam Ganne
• Young Tanker: Jack Bannon
• SS Officer: Marek Oravec
• SS Sniper: Jaime FitzSimons
• US Soldier (uncredited): Marlon Blue
• Pvt James (uncredited): Jamie B. Chambers
• SS Medic (uncredited): Zach Avery
• Baker Company ‘Redneck’ (uncredited): Daniel Westwood
• Burgermeister: Daniel Betts
• Benton: Osi Okerafor
• Old Woman: Vivien Bridson

Film Crew:

• Executive Producer: Brad Pitt
• Editor: Dody Dorn
• Casting: Mary Vernieu
• Production Design: Andrew Menzies
• Costume Design: Anna B. Sheppard
• Art Direction: Mark Scruton
• Executive Producer: Ben Waisbren
• Stunt Coordinator: Ben Cooke
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Marc Fishman
• Editor: Jay Cassidy
• Set Decoration: Malcolm Stone
• Writer: David Ayer
• Original Music Composer: Steven Price
• Art Direction: Phil Harvey
• Casting: Lucy Bevan
• Makeup Artist: Jo Grover
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Jerome Chen
• Still Photographer: Giles Keyte
• Producer: Bill Block
• Visual Effects Producer: Everett Burrell
• Director of Photography: Roman Vasyanov
• Dialect Coach: Joy Ellison
• Producer: Ethan Smith
• Casting: Lindsay Graham
• Music Editor: Del Spiva
• Foley: Gary A. Hecker
• Camera Operator: Simon Tindall
• Producer: John Lesher
• Costume Design: Maja Meschede
• Set Decoration: Lee Gordon
• Executive Producer: Anton Lessine
• Executive Producer: Sasha Shapiro
• Property Master: Terry Wells
• Assistant Art Director: Gary Jopling
• ADR Mixer: Robert Edwards
• Dialogue Editor: Robert Troy
• Sound Effects Editor: Lee Gilmore
• Sound Effects Editor: Hamilton Sterling
• Foley: Rick Owens
• Makeup Effects: Steve Painter
• Visual Effects Producer: Michelle Eisenreich
• Scenic Artist: Robert J. Dugdale
• Sound Effects Editor: Jamie Hardt
• Executive Producer: Alex Ott
• Sound Designer: Paul N.J. Ottosson
• Digital Intermediate: Mandy Arnold
• Wigmaker: Alex Rouse
• Publicist: Ruben Malaret
• Visual Effects Editor: Jody Rogers
• Sound Effects Editor: Bruce Tanis
• Camera Operator: Jamie Harcourt
• Camera Operator: Des Whelan
• First Assistant Editor: Emma McCleave
• Dialogue Editor: James Morioka
• ADR & Dubbing: Russell Farmarco
• Unit Publicist: Claudia Kalindjian
• Visual Effects Producer: Brian Drewes
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Sean Devereaux
• Digital Intermediate: Morning Star Schott
• ADR & Dubbing: James Simcik
• Rigging Gaffer: Steve Kitchen
• Makeup Artist: Uxue Laguardia
• Set Costumer: Peter K. Christopher
• Hairstylist: Luca Saccuman
• Hairstylist: Annette Field
• Hairstylist: Zoey Stones
• Makeup Artist: Marta Roggero
• Makeup Artist: Chiara Ugolini
• Makeup Artist: Siobhan Harper Ryan
• Makeup Effects: David Malinowski
• Special Effects Makeup Artist: Jon Moore
• Makeup Effects: Anthony Parker
• Art Department Coordinator: Candice White
• Scenic Artist: Natalie Laws
• Special Effects Coordinator: Jalila Otky
• CG Supervisor: Pauline Duvall
• CG Supervisor: Jason Wardle
• Animation: Steve Avoujageli
• Visual Effects Editor: Rolf Fleischmann
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Mathew Krentz
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Taylor Tulip-Close
• Second Unit Cinematographer: Steven Hall
• Gaffer: Lee Walters
• Camera Operator: Dennis Noyes
• Costume Supervisor: Daryl Bristow
• First Assistant Editor: Robert Benedict
• Location Manager: Asha Sharma
• Location Manager: Lee Robertson
• Costume Design: Owen Thornton
• Stunts: Sean Button
• Draughtsman: Kevin Timon Hill
• Makeup Artist: Tanaz Nili

Movie Reviews:

• wouter1301: 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.
• mattwilde123: ‘Fury’ has fantastic set pieces. The special effects are incredible and the sound is brilliant. The film is very gory and there are lots of explosions and body parts flying all over the place.

  I could tell that the movie was trying to follow in the footsteps of ‘Saving Private Ryan’ by stealing a lot of the characters and trying to recreate the depth and heart of that film. However, it didn’t realise that ‘Saving Private Ryan’ took a lot of ideas from old war movies and paid homage to them whilst delivering awe-inspiring and moving scenes of battles.

  ‘Fury’ did not have this. A lot of the dialogue and interaction between characters was laughable. The romance that tried to be thrown in at the middle of the film did not work and just seemed bizarre, The characters were one-dimensional and just seemed like walking stereotypes. The film felt more like ‘Tropic Thunder’ than ‘Saving Private Ryan’.

  ‘Fury”s lack of long shots of the landscapes and battles meant that the film did not seem as vast or beautiful as other films of the genre.

  However, the action scenes were very well done and it was exciting and superbly directed.

  ★★★½

• Per Gunnar Jonsson: I knew that quite a few people had complained about the realism in this movie even though it hold high ratings on most movie sites. I was hoping that the complaints were mostly nitpicking like wrong model of Sherman tank and such like. Well, I am afraid that it was a bit more than that. I would say that this movie is clearly written by some Hollywood writer sitting in his comfy chair and never ever having been close to any military activities, not to mention live action, in his life.

  I can live with a movie being inaccurate or somewhat unrealistic if the rest of the movie is good but I have to say that I did not really like the movie even after trying to filter out the unrealistic nonsense.

  The movie is very dark and gritty and there are really no likeable characters in it whatsoever. Well, the clerk that got thrown in as a tank machinegun gunner was perhaps somewhat likable but then him getting assigned as a tank machinegun gunner in the first place was one of those nonsensical bits. In this movie the “heroes” are not really any better than the Nazis. The scene where “Wardaddy” forces previously mentioned clerk to shoot an unarmed POW is just disgusting. I am sure this is not too far from reality in some cases during the war but I’ll be damned if I am watching a movie to be entertained by it.

  Having said that I must also say that the movie was very well done in terms of acting and cinematography with one exception. The ridiculous overuse of tracer bullet effects. Tracer bullets do not look like you are in a Star Wars movie and yes I have been using tracer bullets during my military service, obviously unlike the producer and consultants (if they had any) of this movie.

  The pacing of the movie was somewhat uneven. Some of it was fairly fast paced but then some parts, like the part in the apartment of the two German women was quite slow and somewhat dull.

  The “last stand” at the end was just silly and nonsensical. It started pretty much right away when the poor clerk spots the arriving German infantry just using his eyes. Then it just takes forever until they actually arrive so our “heroes” have all the time in the world to prepare. There would of course be no way for a lone Sherman to hold off an assault like that and the Germans would of course not be charging around shooting useless fine caliber weaponry against said Sherman. Also when they had all this time to prepare why the f… did they leave some of the ammo outside the tank? Obviously because some dumb scriptwriter thought it would make for a good scene. And do not get me started on the fact that the Germans apparently just stops in their tracks every time the director thinks it is time for some slow scene inside the tank.

  The ending? Well I do not like bad endings and this one certainly did not give me any feeling of reward for having suffered through over two hours of this movie. Needless to say I am a tad disappointed.

• Wuchak: WWII through the eyes of a Sherman tank crew

  RELEASED IN 2014, “Fury” details the exploits of ‘Wardaddy’ (Brad Pitt) and his Sherman tank crew during the final month of the European theater of World War II. A meek new guy who knows little about tanks, Norman (Logan Lerman), joins the crew and must learn to kill. Making a final push into the heart of Nazi Germany, the Fury crew makes a heroic stand when their tank breaks down.

  Writer/director Dick Ayers wrote the screenplay for 2001’s excellent “Training Day.” In “Fury” he successfully shows the soldiers’ view of WWII through the eyes of a Sherman tank crew. I know of no other war film that sets out or accomplishes this; Oddball and his crew from “Kelly’s Heroes” (1970) perhaps comes closest.

  I mainly judge films by whether or not the story keeps my attention. After all, what good is great action, thrills and incredible special effects if the story (or the way it’s told) is dullsville, like, say, “The Mummy Returns” (2001) or “Man of Steel”(2013)? “Fury” kept my attention from beginning to end and the characters are all memorable. Speaking of which, the three remaining crewmembers are ‘Bible’ (Shia LaBeouf), ‘Coonass’ (Jon Bernthal) and ‘Gordo’ (Michael Peña).

  ‘Bible’ is fittingly an evangelical who strives not to lose his spirituality while brutally annihilating people in the name of war, whereas newcomer Norman is a mainline Christian (Episcopalian). A handful of scripture passages are quoted during the course of the movie, including a couple near the end by Wardaddy. This is an interesting revelation because Wardaddy has become hardened by the war after three years fighting from North Africa all the way to the nucleus of the Nazis. This implies that he was a devoted believer before the war but only a glimmer of his former spiritual affection remains. There are other quality character bits interspersed throughout the film, like how annoying drunk bastages may not be so bad once they sober up.

  Beyond the above, the film offers the typical tragic insights about the nature of war. The long final stand in the last act may be unlikely, but it makes for a heroic and thrilling ending to a war movie (yes, it’s a MOVIE, not a friggin’ documentary). At the end of the day “Fury” arguably ranks with the best WWII movies, like “Where Eagles Dare” (1968), “Enemy at the Gates” (2001), “The Eagle has Landed” (1976), “Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957), “The Dirty Dozen” (1967), “The Thin Red Line” (1998), and “Inglourious Basterds” (2009). As far as comparing it to the overrated “Saving Private Ryan” (1998), the first half hour of that movie is great, but the rest of it leaves much to be desired (remember the lame dog tag sequence?); “Fury” is leagues better IMHO.

  The melancholic and moving score by Steven Price is a highlight. Alicia von Rittberg (Emma), Anamaria Marinca (Irma) and Jason Isaacs are featured in fairly notable roles. Speaking of Emma, the brief romance between her and Norman is decidedly forced, which is one of the few negatives of “Fury,” but I get the point of that sequence.

  THE FILM RUNS 134 minutes and was shot in England.

  GRADE: A-