At times, “Only the Brave” ladles out more than enough sentiment to elicit tears no matter how imperturbable you count yourself. The sacrifices that they made to attain ‘hot shots’ status is comparable to the rigorous regimens that U.S. The gung-ho Granite Mountain firefighters found themselves pushed around like minor leaguers at every fight until they earned their certification to be ‘hot shots.’ This certification enabled them to advance from the rear echelons to the front ranks. Comparatively, these firefighters resemble the ‘smoke jumpers’ from epics like “Red Skies of Montana” (1952) and “Firestorm” (1998) who bail out of planes and parachute into the worse spots to set fires to stop fires. Initially, this struggling company of firefighters, who fought fire by starting other fires to avert bigger blazes, gained little recognition.

Ordinary, blue-collar, middle-class guys, who drove trucks, drank beer, danced with their wives and girlfriends at country hoedowns, and pranked on each other made up the Granite Mountain Hotshots. Imagine watching a synthesis of a boot camp training movie and a contemporary western, and you’ll have a good idea what happens in this memorable movie about a maverick team of underdogs.

“TRON: Legacy” director Joseph Kosinski with “Black Hawk Down” scenarist Ken Nolan and “American Hustle” scribe Eric Warren Singer have fashioned a first-rate, inspirational film about the lives of the nineteen men who died in the inferno as well as the sole survivor who miraculously escaped. A top-notch, true-life, tale of tragedy, “Only the Brave”, starring Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges, Miles Teller, Taylor Kitsch, and Jennifer Connelly, salutes an elite team of ill-fated firefighters immortalized as ‘the Granite Mountain Hotshots’ who died in the line of duty battling the disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill blaze in Prescott, Arizona.

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