Only the Brave Film Review

Finished watching Only the Brave, directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges and Miles Teller. The film opens with firefighter Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin) heading to the base of the Granite Mountain firefighters before heading out with his crew to a local forest fire. After tackling the blaze with the some homes being destroyed in the process a couple of Marsh’s crew leave for better job opportunities. Marsh later goes to his friend Duane Steinbrink (Jeff Bridges) with the hope to get help for the opportunity for his crew to get certified as Hotsorts in hope to have a more prominent role in helping with tackling forest fires around America. Overall this was a great film as it has an amazing amount of character development over the course of the film from the journey that Eric Marsh and Brendan McDonough (Miles Teller) takes as characters while the rest of the cast also get a nice amount of screen time to give some great development and insight to there characters. The film also does a great job in bring to life Americas many forests thanks to some beautiful shots from above to the besides the characters themselves while also show how destructive a forest fire can be. Additionally the film’s visuals along with the multiple character interactions help to enforce the sense of danger that comes from the multiple forest fires the crew of the Granite Mountain Hotshots tackle. 8/10.