It seems that Brad Pitt has this liking to killing Nazis in motion pictures.  Five years after starring in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Pitt is making another Nazi-killing outing as an American tank leader in Fury. However, his character as Sgt. Don Collier (nicknamed Wardaddy), is a worn out not-so chatty pal compared to his Inglorious character. The film's director, David Ayer, was even more linear and literal than Mr. Tarantino!

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Joining Pitt is Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, and The Walking Dead actor Jon Bernthal.

The movie earned the raves of critics.

A.O. Scott of The New York Times hailed the film for being "staged with an air of grim necessity." The critic also praised the director, who also wrote the screenplay for "filming violence that is both intense and matter-of-fact."

As for Shia LaBeouf's performance, Scott remarked it as "excellent," that "one of the film's subtlest and most intriguing touches" is the "tenderness" that exists between the actor's character, Bible, and Pitt's, Wardaddy. The actor even went to the extent of getting his tooth pulled and his face cut with knife just to make his performance almost real-life.

The film's shooting wrapped fall of 2013 shortly before LaBeouf was hit by controversy over issues of plagiarism, strange public behavior, a stint in the rehab, unruly misconduct that led to his arrest and a Broadway performance.

Meanwhile, Todd McCarthy of Hollywood Report praised Fury for being a "good, solid World War II movie, nothing more and nothing less," with its "rugged and realistic" portrayal of history's most dramatic event.

On Pitt's performance, McCarthy writes that he is " terrific here as a seasoned pro who's tough because the war has made him so but clearly has a lot going on inside; there can be no doubt he's committed acts he regrets."

Peter Debruge of Variety, however, was not so kind, writing that Pitt's portrayal of his character in Fury is a "watered-down version of his Inglourious Basterds character." He also criticized the film for being a film that provided "disappointingly bland look at a World War II tank crew."

Fury hits cinemas October 17. 

TagsBrad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Fury