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1945年4月――たった5人で、300人のドイツ軍に挑んだ男たち。
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1945年4月、戦車“フューリー"を駆るウォーダディーのチームに、戦闘経験の一切ない新兵ノーマンが配置された。
新人のノーマンは、想像をはるかに超えた戦場の凄惨な現実を目の当たりにしていく。
やがて行く先々に隠れ潜むドイツ軍の奇襲を切り抜け進軍する“フューリー"の乗員たちは、世界最強の独・ティーガー戦車との死闘、さらには敵の精鋭部隊300人をたった5人で迎え撃つという、絶望的なミッションに身を投じていく。
たった一輌の戦車でドイツの大軍と戦った5人の男たちは、なぜ自ら死を意味する任務に挑んだのか―。
※本編のみ収録。
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- 言語 : 英語, 日本語
- 製品サイズ : 25 x 2.2 x 18 cm; 80 g
- EAN : 4547462101952
- 監督 : デヴィッド・エアー
- 時間 : 2 時間 15 分
- 発売日 : 2015/12/25
- 出演 : ブラッド・ピット, シャイア・ラブーフ, ローガン・ラーマン, マイケル・ペーニャ
- 字幕: : 日本語
- 販売元 : ソニー・ピクチャーズエンタテインメント
- ASIN : B018S2FNAS
- ディスク枚数 : 1
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Amazonの宣伝に釣られ予約しいて忘れた頃に届きました。正直衝動買いでしたが買って良かったです。色々なバージョンが有って判んなくて悩んだんですけど【スチールケース】【日本版】【ガルパン】を選択スチールケースは3枚収納出来る物で最初から収まっている[本編][特典]の2枚のディスクに加え紙ケースに収まっている[ガルパン]ディスクの収まる分もあります。しかもその紙ケースが一回り小さいのでスチールケース内に一緒に収まります。しかもいつも保管に苦慮する帯(後ろに添えてある紙)も三方背ケース内に[スチールブック][ブックレット]と一緒に収まります。細かい事ですがこういうのはとても気持ちいいです。三方背ケース≪スチールケース<本編+特典+ガルパン+ガルパン紙ケース>+ブックレット+帯≫こーゆー収まりです本編は特に予備知識無しでの鑑賞でしたが『戦車乗り』にスポットを当てた映画ってあまり記憶にないんですが非常に面白かったです。はるか昔、色々な戦車に興味を持ちプラモやペーパークラフトで作っていた頃の記憶を久々に蘇らせてくれました。戦争映画の場合グロテスクな描写の度合いが様々ですが本作はとてもグロテスクでした。この辺はリアルな表現を目指しておられると思うんですが、本当のリアルでも無いでしょうしかといって本当の銃殺シーンが撮影出来る訳も無いので(そんなの誰も見たくないし)要するに幾らグロテスクな所を目指しても模倣でしか無い訳でそこを目指す意味が見い出せない個人的にはこの様なシーンは『銃撃等でダメージを受ける』という一種の記号の様な物として最低限それだと判るもっとマイルドな表現を好みます。あくまでも娯楽映画ですから残虐シーンにおける私の一般的な意見を語ってしまいましたが残虐な映像という事だけで本作に目を背ける人が居たら勿体ないと思うぐらい見て頂きたい良作です。本作の気に入った部分は一台の戦車をある種の[HOME]と捉えそこに暮らす家族の如く人間関係を描き出そうという所と米軍・独軍のそれぞれの異なる戦闘へのアプローチとか相手軍の特徴を踏まえた攻略合戦を解りやすく見せてくれている所ですまた特別に観るべき要素としては現存する[タイガー戦車]を実際に走らせて撮影に使っているシャーマンとの戦闘シーンです(字幕ではティーガーですが日本人の耳にはタイガーでした。昔はそう呼んでたし・・・虎もタイガーって発音するしなー)ある意味貴重な記録映像という一面もありますまあこんな感じで眠っていた男の子心を揺さぶり起こされる特別な映画であった事は間違いないですしかも、特典ディスクが本編で湧いた興味に沿った方向でどんどん深みに誘ってくれる様なコンテンツてんこ盛りなので(ガルパンも侮ってましたがあまりにもマニアックで本気のドキュメンタリー映像作品なのでとても勉強になります。)本編も含めてなんて学術的な資料なんでしょうか(お腹一杯で60ページもあるブックレットはまだ読めてないです)パッケージも含めて隙のない商品だと思います。★★★★★★★★
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結構反戦映画かも?
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攻撃シーンも上手く再現され
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見応えありました。
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とにかく素晴らしいの一言。
最後にブラピが… ちょっと寂しいけど。
最後にブラピが… ちょっと寂しいけど。
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アメリカ万歳映画とか実際の武器性能がどうとかいうコメントも多いが
映画は虚構エンタメなんだから楽しめればいいんだよ。
あと情緒表現がどうとか見方が浅いからブラピのセリフや演技がわからないんだ。
戦争時はみんな狂ってるっつうの。
映画は虚構エンタメなんだから楽しめればいいんだよ。
あと情緒表現がどうとか見方が浅いからブラピのセリフや演技がわからないんだ。
戦争時はみんな狂ってるっつうの。
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Patricio C.
5つ星のうち5.0
Película entretenida
2023年9月29日にメキシコでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Cuando vi esta película me gustó pero no había considerado comprarla para mi colección hasta que vi la versión en 4K a un precio de infarto. La calidad de imagen es muy buena, el audio también. Valió la pena la compra.

Gilbert Faes
5つ星のうち5.0
Aankoop Fury ( Blu-ray )
2024年1月30日にベルギーでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
100 % OK Goede verzending en besteld item beantwoorde volledig aan de beschrijving
van de verkoper ( uiterst tevreden )
:-):-):-)
van de verkoper ( uiterst tevreden )
:-):-):-)

Bullet Boy
5つ星のうち5.0
Great Film
2024年2月7日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
There have been many professional reviews of this film concerning its accuracy, effects, actors etc. From my point of view it was quite simply a good yarn with plenty of action and several scenes to make you think. Well worth a watch.

matt
5つ星のうち5.0
good war movie
2022年6月6日にオーストラリアでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
good war movie it claims to be based on true stories but find that a little hard to believe

George N. Schmidt
5つ星のうち5.0
"Fury" bringing Hollywood closer to the realities of the final months of World War II...
2015年1月28日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Fury" is one of the best movies made by Hollywood in a long long time.
And notice that I'm not saying "best war movies..." but
Best movies.
The horror of the final months of World War II in Germany has never been depicted this well, and I only wish some more of the men who had been there were still around to discuss it, now that this movie was with us. One of those men was my father.
But first, a bit about the authenticity.
One of the worst things about many of the later World War II movies (most silly among them, "Patton") is that they got little or nothing right. American tank soldiers fought inside Sherman tanks, not those later American tanks (like the "Pattons" utilized in the movie "Patton"). And the Shermans were decent tanks -- except against the best of the Nazi armor. In order to do a decent job with the movie, "Fury" had to locate real Shermans (and a real German Tiger tank) that could be used. Otherwise, everything else would have been lost to the lack of authenticity, which is what the movie had to have.
But more than that, the movie had to be authentic to the reality of the men who ended their war in Germany (and Austria and Czechslovakia, the last three countries to be taken -- and that's the correct word, not the Cold War "liberated" -- from the hands of the Nazi leadership) in May 1945. For the soldiers on the job with the U.S. forces during those months, the job was killing "Krauts", "Heinies..." etc. And the job of the "Krauts" was killing Americans (and British, Canadian, and French invaders coming from the West; or Russians from the East). Both sides got very good at their jobs.
"Fury" takes that job seriously, depicting the job by portraying the five-man crew of one Sherman tank during that last month before Adolf Hitler's suicide and the final surrender of the remnants of the Nazi empire. It the simplest way, "Fury" is another "War Movie" (caps necessary), a buddy movies, and more. A tank crew is led by Brad Pitt (as US Army S/Sgt. Don "Wardaddy" Collier. As the movie begins, the crew consists of Shia LaBeouf as Boyd "Bible" Swan, Michael Peña as Cpl. Trini "Gordo" Garcia, and Jon Bernthal as Pfc. Grady "Coon-Ass" Travis. In the first nasty battle portrayed in the film, they have lost one of their crew, "Red." They receive a young replacement, Logan Lerman playing Pvt. Norman "Ellison (who doesn't get his non de guerre -- Machine" -- until nearly the end of the story). The tank platoon starts the movie with ten tanks, and by the end there is one. The film depicts how that comes about. The portrayal of the men doing the tank work should earn any of them at least an Oscar nomination, and their lives together inside that bucket of steel is portrayed in the claustrophobic horror that was actually experienced by U.S. tankers during those years -- and especially those final months. All that said, "Fury" might just have been another one of those war movies where the "kid"learns to be a good soldier thanks to the work of the "old man." But this isn't "Sand of Iwo Jima" or any of a dozen of the sanitized bedtime stories we were told as children in the 1950s and 1960s using Hollywood propaganda that began in the 1940s.
In order to do his job, the "kid" has to be taught to be a killer, and he resists. Trained for a mere eight weeks to be a clerk typist, "Logan" is snatched from a replacement truck and ordered to be the machine gunner on "Fury." When he protests that his only military skill is typing "60 words a minute," Wardaddy begins the replacement's new training, with the help of the rest of the family who work inside "Fury." Norman has to become a killer to be a good worker and a fellow soldier, so that by the time the other men bestow on him his war name -- "Machine" -- he has learned his trade and is doing it well. "Idealism is peaceful," Brad Pitt's character tells Norman at one point. "History is violence." And that violence is depicted as almost never before in an American film (and rarely in others, one of which comes to mind -- the Russian "Stalingrad"... but that's another discussion for another time).
By the time of that final battle scene, all the stages have been set, and all the cliches and pieties of previous American war movies have been obliterated or at least severely damaged. Wardaddy's life and fate are not out of "Sand of Iwo Jima" or any of a dozen other war myths that come to mind with alittle thought.
This is important.
One of the most pernicious bits of the historiography from the final months of World War II was the claim that the Americans were fighting "old men and kids" after the German Army "lost" its remaining major reserves in the Battle of the Bulge and Nordwind. Left out of that story is the fact that those "kids", some as young as 14 and 15, were fanatical Nazis who had been trained from the day they entered school under Hitler's versions of reality. As a result, they were as deadly as the men who had raped their way across Poland, France, and Russia a few years earlier.
I have a hunch that "Fury" will get good reviews from the remaining men (and few women) who are still around who actually lived the combat of those months at the "end" of World War II in both Europe and "The Pacific." Sadly, I won't get to have those conversations with my parents, because both -- both combat veterans -- are long dead.
My father ended his war after fighting through Germany into Austria with the 44th Infantry Division, one of the 80 or so U.S. divisions that never made it to Hollywood. He came home with one desire -- to begin that family he and my mother had promised each other when they got married a few months before Pearl Harbor. By April 1945, he was in the Army in Germany and she was in the Army (Army Nurse Corps) on Okinawa. The year 1945 was different for each of millions of men and women across the planet, but one of the jokes in our family was that they really understood the meaning of SNAFU. My mother enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps because the enlistment office promised her that she'd be there -- in Europe -- to patch up my Dad if he was hurt. Naturally, as soon as the paperwork was in, she was sent to the other side of the planet.
But they did get together by December 1945, after the G.I. protests in "The Pacific" demanding that "Bring the Boys Home." (They didn't mention the girls; there weren't many of them).
And so they got their dreams, and in September 1946 I was the first of the four children they had, keeping that promise from early 1941.
But there were mysteries we never could solve.
My father came home with a Bronze Star, a Combat Infantry Badge, and a "yearbook" from his regiment. My mother came home with a little mimeographed booklet of home addresses for all the men and women who had served on the island with her field hospital. Every Christmas, our home was filled with Christmas cards from all over, most of them the men and women Mom and Dad had "served" with.
How does that relate to "Fury"?
Like most boys growing up during the John Wayne 1950s, I wanted the stories. We read "Sergeant Rock" comics and say all those movies about World War II (which got less and less real as the Cold War decade went onward).
No matter how many times I asked my Dad how he got his Bronze Star, the only answer he ever gave was "I got lost one night and I got lucky..."
My mother, remembering her war, had nightmares until they took her over the edge. But since "PTSD" wasn't well known then -- and the American Dream said that women hadn't been in combat anyway -- her healing was more difficult than Dad's. He worked, his post "service" service being the U.S. Post Office.
But the questions remained, and over the years they only grew. What were those wars in 1945 like?
Well, little by little Hollywood is catching up with the facts that were reported early after the war, then suppressed in the lies of the Cold War.
And one of the best things about the movie "Fury" is that it gets those who are paying attention back to that real war that American (and British, Canadian, and French) soldiers actually had to fight after they entered Der Vaterland in early 1945, following the termination of "The Bulge".
The one thing that was certain, the Germans were not being "liberated" as the French and Belgians had been. The Germans were fighting -- virtually all of them -- and dying fanatically for the Reich. And as "Fury" depicts, those who had second thoughts were lynched by their own fellow citizens.
That's why, as our fathers did explain, in very few words, every major city in Germany had to be reduced to rubble. By air and artillery, and finally house to house. Not all the Germans in 1945 were Nazis supporting Hitler's last festungs. Just the majority -- male and female, adults and "children."
Fury does as good a job showing what those final weeks of the war in Europe were. As good as "were like" can offer. Because if we were paying attention, our parents taught us that war IS -- and not "like" anything else. Hollywood can only do so much, once Hollywood decides to try and tell a story honestly.
I wish my Dad were still around so we could watch this movie and talk about it together, but he was buried 19 years ago alongside the brewery in Newark, New Jersey. My Mom had died ten years before that, never fully recovering from the nightmares she brought home with her from Okinawa. Medicated, she wrote hundreds of notes on slips of paper about he lives, by the end believing the Jesus was speaking to her -- between bouts of writing about the broken men, women and children she used her nursing skills for between April and September 1945.
So now, Hollywood has brought us "Fury." It's about tankers, specifically the 2nd U.S, Armored Division fighting through Germany in April 1945. By then, Europe was a killing field from "East" (where the Russians were heading into Berlin) to the "West," where my father and a million young men like him were heading through Germany.
One of the best things about "Fury" is that the men who play the tankers in it trained for their acting roles in two ways. They listened to the men who were still alive (not many) from the Second Armored Division. And then they got some "basic training" from Navy SEALS to give them a bit of a sense of what some of it was "like." I think they did a decent job in telling a brutal story that doesn't hedge on the realities those men faced in those days.
As the movie notes at the beginning, most of the U.S. tankers in Europe were doomed men. The German armor was better than the U.S. tanks, and so, as "Fury" shows, Sherman tanks fighting German Tiger tanks were as a serious -- and suicidal -- disadvantage. There are dozens of scenes so authentic in the movie as to make you cringe, and the dialogue is as close to "reality" as possible. Men at war use the "F" word a lot, and in all its variations. None of the dialogue is cleaned up in "Fury" for some politically correct later day.
There are a dozen scenes that make the movie memorable, and at least eight actors who deserve to be recognized for their work.
But perhaps the final scene does as much as could be imagined.
The lone survivor (I know, spoiler alert) is the kid' Norman, who at first refused to be a killer, as the war demanded.
"You're a hero buddy. You know that?" the soldiers who put him in the ambulance say as the scene ends the movie. And I have a hunch that most of the men who came home from those brutal months knew that a "Hero" was just a young many who had gotten lost one night and "got lucky."
And notice that I'm not saying "best war movies..." but
Best movies.
The horror of the final months of World War II in Germany has never been depicted this well, and I only wish some more of the men who had been there were still around to discuss it, now that this movie was with us. One of those men was my father.
But first, a bit about the authenticity.
One of the worst things about many of the later World War II movies (most silly among them, "Patton") is that they got little or nothing right. American tank soldiers fought inside Sherman tanks, not those later American tanks (like the "Pattons" utilized in the movie "Patton"). And the Shermans were decent tanks -- except against the best of the Nazi armor. In order to do a decent job with the movie, "Fury" had to locate real Shermans (and a real German Tiger tank) that could be used. Otherwise, everything else would have been lost to the lack of authenticity, which is what the movie had to have.
But more than that, the movie had to be authentic to the reality of the men who ended their war in Germany (and Austria and Czechslovakia, the last three countries to be taken -- and that's the correct word, not the Cold War "liberated" -- from the hands of the Nazi leadership) in May 1945. For the soldiers on the job with the U.S. forces during those months, the job was killing "Krauts", "Heinies..." etc. And the job of the "Krauts" was killing Americans (and British, Canadian, and French invaders coming from the West; or Russians from the East). Both sides got very good at their jobs.
"Fury" takes that job seriously, depicting the job by portraying the five-man crew of one Sherman tank during that last month before Adolf Hitler's suicide and the final surrender of the remnants of the Nazi empire. It the simplest way, "Fury" is another "War Movie" (caps necessary), a buddy movies, and more. A tank crew is led by Brad Pitt (as US Army S/Sgt. Don "Wardaddy" Collier. As the movie begins, the crew consists of Shia LaBeouf as Boyd "Bible" Swan, Michael Peña as Cpl. Trini "Gordo" Garcia, and Jon Bernthal as Pfc. Grady "Coon-Ass" Travis. In the first nasty battle portrayed in the film, they have lost one of their crew, "Red." They receive a young replacement, Logan Lerman playing Pvt. Norman "Ellison (who doesn't get his non de guerre -- Machine" -- until nearly the end of the story). The tank platoon starts the movie with ten tanks, and by the end there is one. The film depicts how that comes about. The portrayal of the men doing the tank work should earn any of them at least an Oscar nomination, and their lives together inside that bucket of steel is portrayed in the claustrophobic horror that was actually experienced by U.S. tankers during those years -- and especially those final months. All that said, "Fury" might just have been another one of those war movies where the "kid"learns to be a good soldier thanks to the work of the "old man." But this isn't "Sand of Iwo Jima" or any of a dozen of the sanitized bedtime stories we were told as children in the 1950s and 1960s using Hollywood propaganda that began in the 1940s.
In order to do his job, the "kid" has to be taught to be a killer, and he resists. Trained for a mere eight weeks to be a clerk typist, "Logan" is snatched from a replacement truck and ordered to be the machine gunner on "Fury." When he protests that his only military skill is typing "60 words a minute," Wardaddy begins the replacement's new training, with the help of the rest of the family who work inside "Fury." Norman has to become a killer to be a good worker and a fellow soldier, so that by the time the other men bestow on him his war name -- "Machine" -- he has learned his trade and is doing it well. "Idealism is peaceful," Brad Pitt's character tells Norman at one point. "History is violence." And that violence is depicted as almost never before in an American film (and rarely in others, one of which comes to mind -- the Russian "Stalingrad"... but that's another discussion for another time).
By the time of that final battle scene, all the stages have been set, and all the cliches and pieties of previous American war movies have been obliterated or at least severely damaged. Wardaddy's life and fate are not out of "Sand of Iwo Jima" or any of a dozen other war myths that come to mind with alittle thought.
This is important.
One of the most pernicious bits of the historiography from the final months of World War II was the claim that the Americans were fighting "old men and kids" after the German Army "lost" its remaining major reserves in the Battle of the Bulge and Nordwind. Left out of that story is the fact that those "kids", some as young as 14 and 15, were fanatical Nazis who had been trained from the day they entered school under Hitler's versions of reality. As a result, they were as deadly as the men who had raped their way across Poland, France, and Russia a few years earlier.
I have a hunch that "Fury" will get good reviews from the remaining men (and few women) who are still around who actually lived the combat of those months at the "end" of World War II in both Europe and "The Pacific." Sadly, I won't get to have those conversations with my parents, because both -- both combat veterans -- are long dead.
My father ended his war after fighting through Germany into Austria with the 44th Infantry Division, one of the 80 or so U.S. divisions that never made it to Hollywood. He came home with one desire -- to begin that family he and my mother had promised each other when they got married a few months before Pearl Harbor. By April 1945, he was in the Army in Germany and she was in the Army (Army Nurse Corps) on Okinawa. The year 1945 was different for each of millions of men and women across the planet, but one of the jokes in our family was that they really understood the meaning of SNAFU. My mother enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps because the enlistment office promised her that she'd be there -- in Europe -- to patch up my Dad if he was hurt. Naturally, as soon as the paperwork was in, she was sent to the other side of the planet.
But they did get together by December 1945, after the G.I. protests in "The Pacific" demanding that "Bring the Boys Home." (They didn't mention the girls; there weren't many of them).
And so they got their dreams, and in September 1946 I was the first of the four children they had, keeping that promise from early 1941.
But there were mysteries we never could solve.
My father came home with a Bronze Star, a Combat Infantry Badge, and a "yearbook" from his regiment. My mother came home with a little mimeographed booklet of home addresses for all the men and women who had served on the island with her field hospital. Every Christmas, our home was filled with Christmas cards from all over, most of them the men and women Mom and Dad had "served" with.
How does that relate to "Fury"?
Like most boys growing up during the John Wayne 1950s, I wanted the stories. We read "Sergeant Rock" comics and say all those movies about World War II (which got less and less real as the Cold War decade went onward).
No matter how many times I asked my Dad how he got his Bronze Star, the only answer he ever gave was "I got lost one night and I got lucky..."
My mother, remembering her war, had nightmares until they took her over the edge. But since "PTSD" wasn't well known then -- and the American Dream said that women hadn't been in combat anyway -- her healing was more difficult than Dad's. He worked, his post "service" service being the U.S. Post Office.
But the questions remained, and over the years they only grew. What were those wars in 1945 like?
Well, little by little Hollywood is catching up with the facts that were reported early after the war, then suppressed in the lies of the Cold War.
And one of the best things about the movie "Fury" is that it gets those who are paying attention back to that real war that American (and British, Canadian, and French) soldiers actually had to fight after they entered Der Vaterland in early 1945, following the termination of "The Bulge".
The one thing that was certain, the Germans were not being "liberated" as the French and Belgians had been. The Germans were fighting -- virtually all of them -- and dying fanatically for the Reich. And as "Fury" depicts, those who had second thoughts were lynched by their own fellow citizens.
That's why, as our fathers did explain, in very few words, every major city in Germany had to be reduced to rubble. By air and artillery, and finally house to house. Not all the Germans in 1945 were Nazis supporting Hitler's last festungs. Just the majority -- male and female, adults and "children."
Fury does as good a job showing what those final weeks of the war in Europe were. As good as "were like" can offer. Because if we were paying attention, our parents taught us that war IS -- and not "like" anything else. Hollywood can only do so much, once Hollywood decides to try and tell a story honestly.
I wish my Dad were still around so we could watch this movie and talk about it together, but he was buried 19 years ago alongside the brewery in Newark, New Jersey. My Mom had died ten years before that, never fully recovering from the nightmares she brought home with her from Okinawa. Medicated, she wrote hundreds of notes on slips of paper about he lives, by the end believing the Jesus was speaking to her -- between bouts of writing about the broken men, women and children she used her nursing skills for between April and September 1945.
So now, Hollywood has brought us "Fury." It's about tankers, specifically the 2nd U.S, Armored Division fighting through Germany in April 1945. By then, Europe was a killing field from "East" (where the Russians were heading into Berlin) to the "West," where my father and a million young men like him were heading through Germany.
One of the best things about "Fury" is that the men who play the tankers in it trained for their acting roles in two ways. They listened to the men who were still alive (not many) from the Second Armored Division. And then they got some "basic training" from Navy SEALS to give them a bit of a sense of what some of it was "like." I think they did a decent job in telling a brutal story that doesn't hedge on the realities those men faced in those days.
As the movie notes at the beginning, most of the U.S. tankers in Europe were doomed men. The German armor was better than the U.S. tanks, and so, as "Fury" shows, Sherman tanks fighting German Tiger tanks were as a serious -- and suicidal -- disadvantage. There are dozens of scenes so authentic in the movie as to make you cringe, and the dialogue is as close to "reality" as possible. Men at war use the "F" word a lot, and in all its variations. None of the dialogue is cleaned up in "Fury" for some politically correct later day.
There are a dozen scenes that make the movie memorable, and at least eight actors who deserve to be recognized for their work.
But perhaps the final scene does as much as could be imagined.
The lone survivor (I know, spoiler alert) is the kid' Norman, who at first refused to be a killer, as the war demanded.
"You're a hero buddy. You know that?" the soldiers who put him in the ambulance say as the scene ends the movie. And I have a hunch that most of the men who came home from those brutal months knew that a "Hero" was just a young many who had gotten lost one night and "got lucky."