Fury
Directed by David Ayer
Three and One Half Stars
By Rollan Schott
The centerpiece of David Ayer's bleak and gritty "Fury" is a quiet and mysterious scene in a small German apartment that endures much longer than we initially think it might. In 1945, as the Allied forces had turned the tide in WWII and begun to advance deep in to Hitler's Germany, Don Collier (Brad Pitt) the grizzled commander of a beleaguered tank battalion, and Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman), the terrified rookie in his outfit, find two German women holed up in their home after the Americans seize a small German outpost. Like these women, we have no idea what sinister designs these rough men might have on them.