In an era where the words “based on a true story” can give seasoned filmgoers a sinking feeling, however, this is a film where the complications and messiness of reality add genuine heft to the drama. Even in these politically divided times, red and blue audiences alike can agree to root for the first responders and against the flames. See Photo: 'Deadpool 2': Ryan Reynolds Shares First Look at Josh Brolin as CableĪnd given that this is a men-who-are-good-at-their-jobs movie, with the firefighters showing their exemplary abilities before and after they achieve “hot shot” status, and a film where the fires themselves seem both vivid and deadly, “Only the Brave” could easily have coasted on bravado. But as the story builds, these characters become richer and more complicated - and the stakes become more deadly - resulting in a movie with a delayed but no less potent dramatic punch.ĭirector Joseph Kosinski (“Tron: Legacy,” “Oblivion”) and writers Ken Nolan (“Black Hawk Down”) and Eric Warren Singer (“American Hustle”) set up characters we think we know, from Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin), the tough-but-fair superintendent who always seems to know more about fires than everyone around him to Amanda (Jennifer Connelly), Eric’s veterinarian wife who rescues horses and frets about her husband’s safety while he’s putting himself in harm’s way to Brendan (Miles Teller), a drug-using screw-up who tries to get his life together when a recent fling results in his becoming a dad. And sometimes, movies like “Only the Brave” also find ways to stray from the path we’re expecting them to take.īased on Sean Flynn’s GQ article about the first municipal fire department to become an elite “hot-shot” squad sent in to extinguish huge and deadly forest fires, this film starts out so safely square (and square-jawed), that it feels like a World War II movie about a colorful squadron heading to Normandy. Wind, humidity and any number of other factors can transform a forest fire in unpredictable ways.
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