Crappy film

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

I will honestly say I agree with Wellers review, the only good thing about this movie was watching Tino Struckmann, by far the best actor in this cast. He did a great performance leaving me wanting more and the biggest downfall of this film is that there is not more scenes with him as the lead bad guy. and let's just not talk about the horribly CGI, why would they use that when they apparently had a few real tanks. Historically it was way off, I understand they wanted to make a profit of the release of Fury but why? why not try to do something either original or if bent on an exploitation film they could at least gotten a few of the details right - like the time of year?!

Let's face it, Asylum movies suck. Usually, these so-called mockbusters aren't even amusing enough to mock the movies they bust. Incredibly, I cannot lump director Joseph L. Lawson's World War II actioneer "Ardennes Fury" in the same category with the bulk of Asylum's half-baked releases. For the record, this contrived 88-minute blood, sweat, and tears combat mission outing is a straight-to-video, knock-off of director David Ayer's memorable, baptism-by-fire army tank tale "Fury." No, "Ardennes Fury" cannot begin to compare with the gory, war-is-Hell, Brad Pitt movie. Nevertheless, this Asylum release ranks far above the standard-issue studio offal. First, "Ardennes Fury" takes itself seriously and treats World War II with respect. This is a life and death narrative with an American Army Sergeant (Tom Stedman) struggles to get the men under his command back to their lines before they are annihilated by either the enemy or their own USAAF bombers. Unfortunately, the acting at worst is tolerable, and the special effects are hopelessly ersatz, but "Ardennes Fury" at least tries to be more than a bad 'shark' joke. Second, this is a bloody, grimy saga with a genuine villain with a murderous streak running down his Nazi spine. "Red Rose of Normandy" actor Tino Struckman succeeds in making himself into a vile enemy officer. All the German soldiers here are treated like Hollywood movies depicted them in the 1940s when the Allies were at war with the Axis. Third, civilians die! Okay, I'm giving away details, but real life tragedy in an Asylum movie!? The last thing that most Asylum movies share in common is a shred of reality. Here we have children getting kill! Struckman's officer guns them down, while in an unrelated incident an apparently dead German soldier playing possum shoots a little boy in the back! Typically, acts of terror like this are reserved only for the Gestapo. If a German soldier isn't pulling the trigger, then it is a piece of enemy ordinance. A helpless nun steps on a land mine, and she gets blown up. Not even a brave African-American G.I. can save her life. Although we don't see them get blasted to smithereens, they die that way! All of this adds up to an Asylum movie like none other! The American sergeant and the German officer square off near the end before a massive Allied aerial raid, and it is a down and dirty fight to the death. Predictably, the sergeant triumphs, but it is a close-call. When the sergeant shoves a knife into Tino Struckman's nefarious German officer's neck, I cheered him with gusto.Now, I haven't exposed myself to every Asylum release, so there may be some good examples of other Asylum epics out there. "Ardennes Fury" is the first good movie that I have seen and would want to own on Blu-ray. I am overlooking many obvious technical errors. Sherman tanks were hardly a match for Tiger tanks, and Tigers were only vulnerable to Shermans from the rear. Here we are asked to believe that a Sherman could knock out several Tigers. Things would have been more credible how the American tanker crew survived the fray, found a crippled Tiger, killed the crew and used it against the other Tigers. Despite the numerous historical mistakes, I still think that director Joseph J. Lawson and scenarist Stephen Llorens deserve a salute for a job as well done as their minimal budget allowed them. Clearly, if these guys had a couple of million, they could have blown the bottom out of their subject matter.

World War II movies are reappearing and I am all for that. It is important that we not forget the sacrifices made by our brave men and woman during this horrible war. We are loosing them all to time and it is fitting that we honor them before they all leave us. However, there is a point where a tribute becomes a farce and this film demonstrated how to cross that line. The acting reminded me of a thrown-together High School play. The plot was ridiculous. The dialogue poorly written (and I am being kind saying that). There was nothing that spoke to me. I was hoping for an action filled war story and instead I got a disappointing waste of time that was full of itself. Also having the Germans speaking accent-less American only further detracted from any realism that costumes may have tried to create.I further resent the attempt to capitalize on the Brad Pitt film (FURY), by putting this word in the title as an attempt to trick people into viewing this film, but after 5 minutes even an neophyte would realize this was not made by professionals.The film school student that did this as a project should find another profession.

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.