Film Review: Only The Brave
Genre: Biography, Drama
Cert: 12A (PG-13)
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Screenwriter: (based on the GQ article "No Exit" by) Sean Flynn, (written by) Ken Nolan, Eric Warren Singer
Starring: Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Connelly, James Badge Dale, Taylor Kitsch, Andie MacDowell, Geoff Stults, Alex Russell, Thad Luckinbill, Ben Hardy, Scott Haze, Jake Picking, Scott Foxx, Dylan Kenin
Running time: 2h 14min
Parents advised reading before viewing a film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: Some scenes where a bare butt is shown and cleavage are shown once or twice. However, sexual references are mild but frequent throughout the film.
Violence & Gore: Mild scenes depicting consequences of drug use and other minor crimes. Some scenes contained eminent threats of violence or damage to inanimate objects. Scenes showing the potential results of animal cruelty are present as well, though no demonstrations of harming animals were shown.
Profanity: Expletives include at least 19 uses of the s-word and 2 clear uses of the f-word, along with several uses of b****, g*dd***, d***, and others.
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: There is a scene of implied drug use where a glass tube is heated, followed by a man blowing out smoke, seemingly in a daze. There is limited verbal mention of drug use. Multiple references to previous drug addiction and use were made as well as references by a number of the main characters about being recovering addicts but what type of addiction was only vaguely implied.
Story: In 2007 Prescott, Arizona, Eric Marsh of the Prescott Fire Department is frustrated fighting forest fires when the Type 1 or "Hotshot" front line forest firefighting crews from afar overrule his operational suggestions to his area's sorrow. To change that, Marsh gets approval from the Mayor to attempt to organize an unprecedented certified municipal-based Hotshot crew for Prescott. To that end, Marsh needs new recruits, which includes the young wastrel, Brendan McDonough, to undergo the rigorous training and qualification testing for the most dangerous of firefighting duty. Along the way, the new team meets the challenge and the hailed Granite Mountain Hotshots are born. In doing so, all the men, especially McDonough, are changed as new experience and maturity is achieved in fire-forged camaraderie. All this is put to the test in 2013 with the notorious Yarnell Hill Fire that will demand efforts and sacrifices no one can ignore.
Likes: This is the hardest review I've ever done when it comes to film's, special ones that are based on a true event like this. Never have I ever felt so emotionally drain watching what is one of the best films your ever see this year, this review is dedicated to the brave 19 men of Granite Mountain Hotshots and their family's.
When it comes to Tragic events and I know Hollywood sometimes take a film and twist the story to gain money from a tragedy, but when it comes to this film it's seriously done out of respect for the families and those brave soul in 2013.
Director Joseph Kosinski even said making this film was one of the hardest projects he ever has done because it based on the events of 2013 with Yarnell Hill Fire he wanted to truly make this film in memory of them, I went into this film not knowing what this film was about and I came out crying my eye out: yes this is how hard this film hit me.
Not many films have truly hit the heart like this has with it brilliant casting portraying those of Granite Mountain Hotshots and the family's, special when you have one of the best performances from the likes of Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Connelly and many more giving this film one of the most heartfelt emotional intense roller-coaster film of this year.
This film truly shows the damages of work as a forest firefighter and the risk of the jobs which is hard of the family's, because forest firefighters have one the hardest and more dangerous jobs in the world.
Unlike the house or building fires "Forest Firefighters" have to deal with changes in wind and temper that can change a normal situation into an extremely dangerous one, special when a firestorm is created when the temperature rises and the wind pick up carrying the fire like Ice down a mountain.
This is why Forest firefighters carry the silver fireproof blankets when tackling fires just in case they are caught in a situation like that, but it is a 50 / 50 chance of survival which every wife of a firefighter knows that one day their boyfriend or husband might not come back home.
With this film what the most efficient aspects of the film are the acting, storytelling, and cinematography. The movie focuses more on groups lives and relationships with each other giving the film this brotherhood bond together they stand strong special with family as well they are one than the actual firefighting which makes this stand out more than any other true event story.
I know some of the families didn't want this film to be done which is understandable I have great respect for that, because it not the easy of thing to have to live through something twice but some of the family loved this film because it honors their story of the brave 19 men of Granite Mountain Hotshots.
In dedication to Granite Mountain Hotshots.:
Robert Caldwell, aged 23
Travis Carter aged 31
Dustin Deford, aged 24
Christopher MacKenzie aged 30
Grant McKee, aged 21
Sean Misner aged 26
Scott Norris aged 28
Wade Parker aged 22
John Percin aged 24
Anthony Rose aged 23
Jesse Steed aged 36
Joe Thurston aged 32
Travis Turbyfill aged 27
William Warneke aged 25
Clayton Whitted aged 28
Kevin Woyjeck aged 21
Garret Zuppiger aged 27
Your bravery will live on in your fellow brothers that brave the wildfires to keep our towns and city safe. You will live on as heroes to us all, may you find peace in the light Granite Mountain Hotshots. R.I.P
Dislikes: Nothing wrong with this film.
Overall: Compelling, emotional and intense roller coaster, one of the best films this year. a must watch.
The men chisel and saw into the timber martyrs in hopes of establishing a unmovable Line. A miniature trench forms in the loose soil, and brush is doused with liquid fire . The wildfire has reached the checkered flag, and these men will have the best seats on the track.
ReplyDeleteSuperintendent Marsh has been chasing the flames since before his crew’s existence. A man that has surrendered all ambitions of fatherhood, now the great father figure of a rowdy pack of men. > Reviews Only the Brave His wife, Amanda, has signed a contract with him, and together they pursue their respective work with insatiable vigor.
Marsh’s ultimate goal is to become Hot Shot certified. His would be the first municipal crew to achieve this accreditation, and many risks have been made to open the door. His intuition trumps protocol, and his superiors stubbornly acknowledge his genius.
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