Very much crafted in the Peter Berg spirit, this is a manly movie about tough men doing their dirty, dangerous jobs, never once thinking about anything else but the lives of strangers and the welfare of the environment, even if it means not coming home at the end of the day. Written with intelligence, dignity, and macho-swagger by Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down) and Eric Warren Singer (American Hustle), the screenplay traces some of the key members of the squad, various supervisors and town officials, and most importantly, in one key instance, on the wife of one of the men caught up in the middle of the conflagration, thus giving the audience a richer viewing experience, as well as making it an ever more emotional film than you’d expect from the already inherently heat-tugging material. Joseph Kosinski’s heroically sad film Only the Brave tells the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of firemen working in Prescott, Arizona who died in the tragic Yarnell Hill blaze in 2013 out of the 20 man crew, there was only one survivor.
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