In the hands of director Joseph Kosinski, it's informative and exciting watching these guys at work, but something else is going to have to happen on-screen and in Only the Brave, that something else is often feeble: The federal recognition subplot is accompanied by a cliched redemption story and a minor marital drama. Mainly, wildfire fighting deploys a team of men with shovels, chainsaws and flame throwers to clear a line of all vegetation to halt a fire's progress. There is something almost amusingly tangential about this plot line, as a movie supposedly concerned with life, death and natural disasters busies itself with the details of federal-municipal relations and funding formulas for emergency services.Īs they adapt the true-life story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots for the screen, writers Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer have a particular challenge: When it comes to battling forest fires before they encroach on towns, there are only so many fresh scenarios you can dream up.
Only the Brave is a movie about municipal firefighters battling wild fires in Arizona and its first act is mainly concerned with whether this group will be accorded federal recognition as an elite "hotshot" crew.
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