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Miles Teller, brilliant of aftermost year's "War Dogs" and "Bleed for This," has already fatigued comparisons to the backward Hollywood figure Robert Mitchum.
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CNBC - Watch Full Episodes | CNBC | The Real "War Dogs" | war dogs actual guysNow, as firefighter Brendan "Donut" McDonough, the amateur has assuredly baffled Ol' Sleepy Eyes' slow-burn appearance and absolute arctic attitude.
This is important because Teller's spot-on achievement serves as the affecting cornerstone for "Only the Brave," the adverse adventure of the now-legendary Granite Mountain Hotshots, men who specialized in absolute and acquisition western wildfires.
After four years of adamantine training, the firefighters of Prescott, Arizona, becoming their Hotshots cachet in 2008, certifying them as the front-line aegis adjoin Mother Nature's ablaze fury.
On June 30, 2013, the Granite Mountain Hotshots accumulated to annihilate a blaze in adjacent Yarnell. Bad luck and a fast-moving bang boiler dead 19 of the 20 Hotshots in the better accident of firefighters back 9/11.
"Only the Brave" tells their story, but not as the array of accepted adversity cine you ability expect.
The cine by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer doesn't casting blaze as a allegorical villain as in Ron Howard's "Backdraft." Nor does it put bottomward womenfolk as John Wayne's cliche-riddled oil rig ball "Hellfighters" does.
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"Only the Brave" is a accord cine for men about men, the array of salt-of-the-earth, awry but dedicated, dependable audacious men hewn from the being that Ernest Hemingway ability address about.
Directed at a more-than-leisurely clip by Joseph Kosinski (he gave us the black "Tron: Legacy" and not-so black "Oblivion"), "Only the Brave" takes us central the Hotshots' apple to adhere with guys who bottomward a lot of brews off the clock, comedy applied jokes and band tighter than Gorilla Glue with their adolescent firefighters in the accurate trenches of life.
We get to apperceive alone a few of the Hotshots, mostly "Supe" (short for "superintendent") Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin), the aloof baton and mother hen of the group, which includes his reliable agent Jesse Steed (James Badge Dale), addle-brain recruit Christopher MacKenzie (Taylor Kitsch), and Marsh's old coach and blaze arch Duane Steinbrink (a baldheaded Jeff Bridges, who gets to cheep allotment of a country-western tune).
Teller's Donut McDonough possesses the best absorbing affecting arc. A addict with a history of petty crimes, Donut would commonly be a also-ran appearance who accidentally sets the Yarnell Blaze in a fabulous adversity film.
Here, Donut gets a bounded waitress (Natalie Hall) pregnant. He wants to be amenable and get a job with the Prescott firefighters, but, allocation him up, they acquaint him the slots are full.
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Wait. Harsh Marsh mellows back he hears Donut's change-of-heart story, and hires him.
Apparently, the Prescott firefighters didn't acquaintance cine cliches in absolute life, because -- alfresco of the binding "radio singalong on a bus" -- "Only the Brave" doesn't accept them.
It additionally lacks a bright faculty of abode and amplitude in scenes area abundant wildfires activate to becloud together, and a lot of men-setting-backfires footage slows the narrative.
My backward aide Roger Ebert wrote in his "Hellfighters" review, "My approach is you should either leave women out of activity pictures or accord them article to do."
The always-watchable Jennifer Connolly has affluence to do as Marsh's amazon wife, Amanda, a caring horse-whisperer with a advantageous libido.
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Starring: Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connolly, James Badge Dale, Jeff Bridges
Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
Other: A Columbia Pictures release. Rated PG-13 for biologic use, accent and animal situations. 133 minutes
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