Fury [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

Director: David Ayer David Ayer

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/27/2015
UPC:	0043396439948
Original Release:	2014
Rating:	R
Source:	SONY PICTURES
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	2:15:00
Sales rank:	7,048

Special Features

Over 50 minutes of deleted & extended scenes; Director's combat journal; Armored warriors: The real men inside the shermans ; Taming the beasts: how to drive, fire and shoot inside a 30-ton tank; Photo gallery; Blood Brother: cast and crew discuss the harrowing experience of filming in a tank together

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Brad Pitt	Don Collier
Shia LaBeouf	Boyd Swan
Logan Lerman	Norman Ellison
Michael Peña	Trini Garcia
Jon Bernthal	Grady Travis
Jason Isaacs	Captain Waggoner
Scott Eastwood	Sargento Miles
Jim Parrack	Sargento Pete Binkowski
Kevin Vance	Sargento Paterson
Xavier Samuel	Lieutenant Parker
Anamaria Marinca	Irma
Alicia von Rittberg	Emma
Laurence Spellman	Sargento Dillard
Daniel Betts	Actor
Adam Ganne	SS Lieutenant
Eric Kofi Abrefa	Company Messenger
Osi Okerafor	Truck Driver
John MacMillan	Corporal
Saul Barrett	Young SS Trouper
Marek Oravec	SS Officer
Kyle Soller	Medic #1
Jake Curran	Medic #2
Branko Tomovic	German Corporal
Orion Lee	Tired GI #1
Vivien Bridson	Old Woman
Christian Contreras	Outpost Sentry
Stella Stocker	Widowed Woman
Jacob Vonhendial	Son
Lukas Rolfe	Hitler Youth #1,Hitler Youth #2
Harry Hancock	Hitler Youth #3
Daniel Dorr	Lt Obersturmfurher Schmidt
Bernhard Forcher	Sturmbannfuhrer Muller
Edin Gali	Sgt Hauptscharfuhrer Wolfe
Jaime FitzSimons	Actor
Christopher Wright	Actor
Charlie Rotheram	Tank Commander 'Fury'
Nick Beattie	Tank Commander 'Matador'
Jimmy Carroll	Tank Commander 'Old Phyllis'
Chip Dale	Tank Commander 'Lucy Sue'
Dickon Leigh	Tank Commander 'Murder Inc.'
Hugh Vere Nicoll	50 Cal Gunner 'Murder Inc.'
Xander Rawlins	Tank Crew
Brad William Henke	Sargento Davis
Eugenia Kuzmina	Hilda Meier
Christina Wolfe	Pretty Girl on Bike
Jack Bannon	Young Tanker
Steven Price	Composer

Technical Credits

David Ayer

David Ayer	Director,Screenwriter,Producer
John Lesher	Producer
Bill Block	Producer
Ethan Smith	Producer,Producer
Alex Ott	Executive Producer,Producer
Benjamin Waisbren	Executive Producer,Executive Producer,Producer
Sasha Shapiro	Executive Producer,Producer
Anton Lessine	Executive Producer,Producer
Brad Pitt	Executive Producer
Paul N.J. Ottosson	Sound/Sound Designer
Norman Baillie	Special Effects
Jalila Otky Rogan	Special Effects,Makeup Special Effects
Lindsay Graham	Casting
Mary Vernieu	Casting
Andy Williams	Makeup Special Effects,Special Effects Supervisor
Steve Painter	Makeup Special Effects
R.A. Rondell	Stunts
Ben Cooke	Stunts
Lisa Pinero	Sound Mixer
Frank Barlow	Sound Effects
Sean Byrnes	Sound Effects
Charlie Campagna	Sound Effects
Paul Bongiovanni	Special Effects
Lee Gilmore	Sound Effects
Jamie Hardt	Sound Effects
Eilam Hoffman	Sound Effects
David W. Allen	Special Effects
Christopher Brennan	Special Effects
Bruce Bright	Special Effects
Nick Finlayson	Special Effects
Ceri Nicholls	Special Effects
Simon Quinn	Special Effects
George Waite	Special Effects
Chris Corbould	Special Effects
Gareth Jolly	Special Effects
Dan MacIntyre	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

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.