As the Battle of the Bulge rages on, an American tank unit gets trapped behind Nazi lines. With just hours before the bombs of Operation Ardennes Fury fall, the tank's commander makes the risky decision to rescue an orphanage.
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Good story, Not enough for a whole film
Fresh and Exciting
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
I couldn't even make it through the entire film and that's saying a lot. The battle scenes looked like something from a year 2000 video game. The Germans are using the wrong type of tanks and they don't even have the proper symbols on them. The Germans didn't even have accents. Every war cliché in the book is used.The movie starts off with a ridiculous battle that isn't remotely real. The German soldiers are all horrible shots. They can't hit the American soldiers who are 5' in front of them. The battle techniques don't even make any sense. Why would the German soldiers stand in front of their tanks out in the open? The Americans are running at the Germans who have a machine gun that can't hit anything even though its pointed at the Americans. Then the Americans throw a German stick grenade into a conveniently open hatch for a tank. I mean why not leave the hatch open in the middle of a battle.Then the tank goes into the forest with the Americans protecting it with small arms fire. The Germans are in hiding and can't shoot the Americans who are walking in front of them. Never mind the fact that the Americans seem to have an unlimited supply of ammunition and barely have to ever reload. Then somehow they get sidetracked with a mission with a sexy nun who of course speaks perfect English to save some orphans. I mean this is standard military procedure. Instead of getting to safety they decide on the nuns mission with a limited supply of fuel. A few cans of fuel seem to power this tank forever. The entire movie is the tank crew running around picking off Germans with small arms fire behind enemy lines. Even though the Americans are completely exposed they are pretty much invincible.
It is a war movie made by the guys who makes films for scify and it shows, really poor cgi work and some pretty bad acting. However there are some good points one of the best is the bad guy played by Tino Struckmann he is a great actor in a little film, his performance is by far the best part of this film. Some tanks and guns but the bad cgi pulls me out of the scenes. I only hope Struckmann will be really appreciated for his performance and get a chance for bigger movies worthy of his talent. I get the idea they wanted to jump on the wagon of Fury but even on a low budget they could have done a bit better, most of the actors really were bad, and the effects should have been left out, if you cant afford to do cgi well don't do it at all.
I think most of the reviewers have hit the low points. I don't know if anyone has points out that the battle of the Ardennes was fought in December and January so everyone in this movie would have frozen to death. The M-48 Tank Destroyer was not technically a "tank". It's job was to blow up tanks. And speaking of blowing stuff up, the final sequence was totally unrealistic even forgiving the crude special effects. This film was shot near where I grew up in Alabama and it is pretty obvious. The deer-trot cabin/orphanage was a dead give away. It looks like a bunch of WWII buffs got together and said "hey, let's make a movie. how hard can it be?" I can't believe anyone actually financed it or distributed it. I thought this might be like the Saints and Sinners series but it is not nearly as well made. With a little rewriting they may have made a pretty good spoof of a war movie but, alas, they tried to play it serious.
Everyone has pretty much nailed this idiocy of this movie that just happens to come along at the same time Fury is released, which was at least a plausible story that remained as true as possible to tank warfare in WWII Europe. But the only thing I will say about Ardennes Fury that I'm not sure has been said, is, they did not measure distance in klics during WWII. That didn't come until Vietnam. Nor did they say good to go. That came last week. And finally, I don't think tankers would be sitting on top of their tanks behind enemy lines in broad daylight playing cards, while they wait for their comrads to return from a deadly mission. Other than that it was a great movie. Oh, one more thing . . . I don't think a Catholic nun and that th ditsey mother would have been wearing scultured finger nails. The story could have been something seen in an episode of Combat with Claudine Longet playing the babe, as that week's gust star.