Only the Brave chronicles the events leading up to that fatal day in June when a brotherhood of brave men lost their lives to a wildfire that quickly grew out of control and left the lone survivor to carry on their legacy.
In 2013, one such fire near Yarnell, Arizona took the lives of 19 out of the 20 Granite Mountain Hotshots amounting to the deadliest loss of firefighter lives since 9/11. As with hurricanes and tornadoes, wildfires can shift and strengthen based on wind patterns and Barometric pressure and a small fire can suddenly become out of control and deadly. They try to contain the fires so there is minimal damage to forestry and homes while battling blazes in unpredictable conditions.
Among them are the firefighters know as Hot Shots – units of men who fight wildfires, mostly in the western part of the United States. They are unsung heroes who don't get as much credit as they deserve. Police officers and firefighters put themselves in harms way without much thought to the danger that could befall them. Only the Brave will try to take its place on the short-but-distinguished list of memorable movies celebrating the courage of men who run into the fire while everyone else runs away.There are people who selflessly put their lives on the line for others all the time and our civil service workers can be counted among this group. Ron Howard famously brought a new level of realism to the cinematic depiction of firefighting with his 1991 movie Backdraft starring Kurt Russell, Robert De Niro and William Baldwin. Not to be outdone by The Duke, Steve McQueen played a firefighter battling a skyscraper blaze in the disaster movie staple The Towering Inferno. John Wayne once-upon-a-time tackled the role of a super-macho oil well firefighter in the classic Hellfighters. Movies about manly firefighters represent a small and specific sub-genre of action-hero film. The feminine side of the story is represented by Jennifer Connolly and Andie MacDowell, who appear to fill the standard roles of the dutiful wives waiting and worrying at home while their men are out saving the town from being consumed by flames. If what you want is meat-and-potatoes masculine heroism served up with a minimum of fuss, Only the Brave looks like it will be the movie for you.
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