Only the Brave movie review

In a world of Superheroes and Disney, a firefighter movie about Granite Mountain first responders can be quite refreshing. Director Joseph Kosinski’s, “Only The Brave,” follows a group of elite firefighters who gave their life fighting Arizona’s Yarnell Hill Fire in 2013. The biopic tells a story of unwarranted conflict, something not often highlighted in blockbuster movies. The villain in the story is nature, or fire, rather than a malicious character or entity making this story unlike any other movie of it’s kin. “Only The Brave” showcases the resilience and bravery of these fighters in their perilous fight as they struggle with inner conflict. Throughout the movie, the fighters contemplate whether or not the merits or service of their perilous fight is worth ultimate sacrifice and contest with family.“Only the Brave,” does a good job at portraying the intensity and emotion involved true to story, and on top of that creates an extremely heartbreaking tale that will touch the hearts of many. Typically, I find movies of similar topic to be predictable, oscar-baiting, and tediously uninteresting. However, “Only The Brave,” is able to take an often overdone genre of movie and turn it into an emotional narrative that kept me interested from beginning to end.It resembles a war movie, but unlike most of them, examines conflict on the homefront. At it’s surface, it can seem simple, as if it were following a box office template, but at its heart it is an American narrative. We see insight into who these men are, in that they are not highly trained war heroes, but instead helping citizens. The conflict that arises at home gives the audience a heightened sense of sacrifice, adding to the vulnerability and emotion of the story. We see the fighters doing everyday things with their friends and family, which enables the characters to become more than two-dimensional, in turn adding to the emotion and intensity that comes with the action-packed part of the film. The CGI and special effects only add to this intensity, but what puts this movie over the top is the quality of acting and script involved. It is because of this that the true conflicting morality and fervent nature of the story can be acutely portrayed, thus why it’s deserving of a 5 star rating.