Fury

Theatrical Release Date: 2014 10 17 (USA)

UPC: 043396439979

Studio: Sony Pictures

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Profanity, War Violence]

Summary: Brad Pitt leads a tank crew in the final days of World War II in this war drama from End of Watch's David Ayer. The year is 1945. Army sergeant Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) is the grizzled commander of a Sherman tank. Determined to strike a decisive victory for the Allies in the European Theater, Wardaddy leads his five-man crew on a treacherous mission behind enemy lines. His mission complicated by the sudden appearance of a rookie soldier in his platoon, the sergeant knows that victory is within reach, and vows to achieve it by any means necessary. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

Category: Action

Awards: Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Ensemble – National Board of Review

Features: Cast and crew discuss the harrowing experience of filming in a tank together

Fury

Format: DVD

Release Date: 01/27/2015

Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 2.40:1

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 135 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Fury
1. Scene 1 [7:58]
2. Scene 2 [12:25]
3. Scene 3 [6:13]
4. Scene 4 [10:46]
5. Scene 5 [5:57]
6. Scene 6 [8:34]
7. Scene 7 [9:20]
8. Scene 8 [11:52]
9. Scene 9 [:32]
10. Scene 10 [4:42]
11. Scene 11 [7:51]
12. Scene 12 [3:28]
13. Scene 13 [5:48]
14. Scene 14 [12:32]
15. Scene 15 [9:37]
16. Scene 16 [2:51]

Perry Seibert

There isn't much new in David Ayer's WWII film Fury, which follows the missions of a five-man Sherman tank crew led by literally and figuratively war-scarred Sgt. Don Collier (Brad Pitt) as they make their way through Germany in 1945. The Allies are making steady progress deep into Deutschland, but the threat of danger has increased as Hitler has ordered every citizen to help defend the homeland.

Collier, who goes by the nickname "Wardaddy," oversees a tight-knit group that has been together since fighting in Africa at the beginning of the war. The Gospel-quoting "Bible" (Shia LaBeouf), the tough-as-nails "Coon Ass" (Jon Bernthal), and the talkative "Gordo" (Michael Peña) swear they wouldn't want to fight for anybody else. When they lose the fifth member of their crew, nervous young Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman), a trained typist with all of two months of military service, is assigned to be the squad's newest gunner. The soft-spoken, morally unsullied Ellison is given a quick education in the realities of war by Collier and his new band of brothers, though he does eventually discover that he shares with his sergeant a desire to hold on to as much of his humanity as he can.

Fury marks a point of growth for Ayer as a writer and director. His cop film End of Watch utilized GoPro cameras with flair and had wonderful central performances, but the narrative was lacking. His follow-up, Sabotage, flipped this by having a great story that was muddled by thinly drawn characters. This time around, he's crafted a pair of engaging central heroes and plotted out a story line that remains unrelentingly -- but never overwhelmingly -- tense.

Early on, Ayer makes the picture look like a typical men-on-a-mission movie. While he stays true to the conventions of that subgenre, he manages to avoid the pitfall of making Fury -- the name comes from the moniker of the tank the characters spend much of the movie in -- an exercise in rah-rah, feel-good heroics. The violence depicted is uncompromising, making this the furthest thing from a recruitment film.

This is a world with very little moral high ground, yet the picture explores the possibility that not all of these characters are as damaged as they appear. After a series of battle sequences directed with admirable professionalism, there's a long scene in which Collier and Ellison try to have a civilized dinner with a pair of German women living in a town the Allies have just secured. The two men attempt to feel something approaching normalcy, but it's a charade because their presence in the ladies' home creates an undercurrent of menace -- something Ayer emphasizes when the rest of the guys, drunk and looking to let off some steam, arrive.

The movie plays like an attempt to fuse Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning Saving Private Ryan with Brian De Palma's Casualties of War, the latter another film that wanted to show how war destroys innocence. That's not to say that Ayer has Spielberg or De Palma's visual sense, although he does include a brilliantly edited fight against a Tiger tank. Fury may not reach the cinematic heights of its two closest influences, but it does offer a sober-minded response to the heroic martyrdom on display in box-office hits like Lone Survivor. It's exactly the kind of genre movie that feels right for a country that's been at war for more than a decade. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Brad Pitt  Executive Producer 
David Ayer  Director 
David Ayer  Producer 
David Ayer  Screenwriter 
Ethan Smith  Producer 
Benjamin Waisbren  Executive Producer 
Bill Block  Producer 
Alex Ott  Executive Producer 
John Lesher  Producer 
Steven Price  Composer (Music Score) 
Anton Lessine  Executive Producer 
Sasha Shapiro  Executive Producer 
Brad Pitt  Actor 
Shia LaBeouf  Actor 
Logan Lerman  Actor 
Michael Peña  Actor 
Jon Bernthal  Actor 
Jason Isaacs  Actor 
Scott Eastwood  Actor 
Jim Parrack  Actor 
Brad Henke  Actor 
Kevin Vance  Actor 
Xavier Samuel  Actor 
Anamaria Marinca  Actor 
Alicia von Rittberg  Actor 
Laurence Spellman  Actor 
Daniel Betts  Actor 
Adam Ganne  Actor 
Eric Kofi Abrefa  Actor 
Osi Okerafor  Actor 
John Macmillan  Actor 
Saul Barrett  Actor 
Marek Oravec  Actor 
Kyle Soller  Actor 
Jake Curran  Actor 
Jack Bannon  Actor 
Branko Tomovic  Actor 
Orion Lee  Actor 
Vivien Bridson  Actor 
Christian Contreras  Actor 
Stella Stocker  Actor 
Jacob Vonhendial  Actor 
Lukas Rolfe  Actor 
Leon Rolfe  Actor 
Harry Hancock  Actor 
Daniel Dorr  Actor 
Bernhard Forcher  Actor 
Edin Gali  Actor 
Jaime FitzSimons  Actor 
Christopher Wright  Actor 
Charlie Rotheram  Actor 
Nick Beattie  Actor 
Jimmy Carroll  Actor 
Chip Dale  Actor 
Dickon Leigh-Wood  Actor 
Hugh Vere Nicoll  Actor 
Xander Rawlins  Actor 

Country: USA