My thoughts on Fury (Spoilers)

I know there are a couple of threads concerning this movie already, but I wanted to rant in my own thread about this film. Ultimately, Fury's greatest weakness are the characters themselves. Why? Because the characters are some of the biggest pieces of crap I have ever encountered in a motion picture. Of the five main characters, only Logan Lerman's Norman Ellison is even remotely likable. I especially hated Jon Bernthal's Grady Travis. When his character met his fate, I really didn't care. The dude had been a douche to the main protagonist for the entire movie. Even Brad Pitt's Wardaddy is without innocence due to the scene where he has Lerman's character defile his moral code by forcing him to shoot an unarmed POW. While I think all five men did an outstanding job with their characters, the characters themselves were all a bunch of assholes.

The film featured an amazing soundtrack from Steven Price (really loved the dark, German choir) as well as some pretty amazing action scenes. I have no doubt Fury will be nominated for Oscars in the Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Film Editing, and Original Score categories. But that's all this movie is in the end, however. A technical triumph. The writers of this film really made it hard for me to like the characters because none of them were particularly sympathetic or likable.

Final Grade: B-