Saw Fury yesterday with the missus. TBH I had already been expecting it to be a gung ho, shoot 'em up action flick anyway, and there is nothing wrong with that every now and again. I had been looking forward to it for months, since I first heard it was being made. Having seen some reviews, I was expecting the worst, though, as everyone was ridiculing the plot.
Personally, I thought as a gung ho, shoot 'em up action flick it was a pretty good gung ho, shoot 'em up action flick - gritty, and for the most part as realistic and right-in-the-middle-of-it as the battle scenes in Saving Private Ryan. Some elements of tank warfare, (judging by many things I have read on the subject), were represented quite accurately, and the film played well on your feelings of claustrophobia. As to the plot, it's a shame that, in the final scenes, the SS were portrayed as having no idea how to attack a tank other than by repeated full-on infantry charges similar to those deployed by the Zulus at Rorke's Drift. Oh, Hollywood, why must you always do this?
My main problem with the film was that I was left having no idea who was supposed to be good or bad by the end of the film, and ended up not really liking anyone. Hero characters carried out attrocious acts, but you were apparently supposed to change your opinions of them later based on the flimsiest of pretexts or the smallest glimpses of humanity in their nature. Neither I nor my wife have any idea what we were supposed to be feeling by the end, but it was a good rip-snorting action movie that kept us on the edge of our seats. 7/10.
. I loved Gravity though!
