Film

Fury

Name: Fury
Genre: War, Drama, Action
Released: 2014
Cast: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, Jon Bernthal

Fury drops you into a Sherman tank's steel belly for the last ugly weeks of World War II, where survival depends less on courage than on luck and cruelty. It's grim, loud, and unglamorous — a war film about attrition, not heroics. Brad Pitt anchors a five-man crew navigating trauma and horror in claustrophobic long takes. Not for the squeamish or the sentimental.

TMDb rating

7.5

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