Some of the action in the preview scenes seem good, but that may be all there is. In thinking about the premise, a Sherman tank with a busted tread defending some crossroad, my first thought is that it really won’t involve any confrontation with German tanks. If it does, then it would seem a little far fetched to me. The one advantage a Sherman had over a German beast was speed, and with that gone, it would be a turkey shoot. What beat the Germans was numbers of Shermans, not firepower.
Also, one of the best tank movies I’ve seen is “The Beast” about a Russian tank in Afghanistan (disabled) trying to get away from the Mujahadin rebels.
You are uninformed on the capabilities of the late model Shermans. With APCR rounds, at medium and close ranges, they were quite capable of ruining a Tiger’s day.
The resident tank expert at WarGaming wrote up a nice piece on this.
http://worldoftanks.com/en/news/pc-browser/21/TCH_Fury_Sherman_Tiger/
The tales of the Sherman being a death trap are highly overblow and largely stem from a single post-war book. It was no juggernaut but it was hardly a tincan.
Just came in from seeing it. For equipment authenticity it is outstanding. The confrontation with the Tiger is epic. The crossroads defense is a little too much Robert Taylor in Bataan, but it is riveting. Overall I think it does for tankers what Das Boot did for submariners. Better, IMO. than Pvt Ryan which, except for the first 25 minutes tells a story that was told better by A Walk in the Sun or Battleground. They got the nomenclature correct. White phosphorous is Willy Peter and the HVAT anti tank ammo is “supercharge” with the correctly colored projectile. I would pay to se it again. Only disagreement is that projectiles from a Pak 75mm will not deflect off a Sherman unless fired from an impossible angle.