![]() ![]() When the out of shape Brendan joins the team for a long run, only to throw up more than once and finish more than an hour later than the others, he earns the nickname "Donut" from a group of guys who don't want or trust him as they prepare to certify as the first Hotshot team in their region. But when Brendan McDonough (Miles Teller) - a young recovering drug addict who needs needs a chance to become a better person and provide for his newly born daughter - wants to join the team, Marsh surprises everyone by giving the kid a chance. Marsh eats, sleeps and breathes fire ( he's actually up for a small role in How To Train Your Dragon 3) and he expects nothing less from his crew. The story centers around Eric "Supe" Marsh (Josh Brolin), the leader of the outfit and a man so devoted to his job/obsession that has little room for anything else, barely fitting in his wife Amanda (Jennifer Connelly.). We've gone from wondering if he can pull off Top Gun to being excited to see what he chooses as a follow up. It marks Kozinki's arrival as a director with range and an ability to tell good a story, and to get top flight performances from a cast. But it's also very engaging, moving and surprisingly thoughtful, and shot with a keen eye without every trying too hard to dazzle us. And it is indeed full of rugged cowboy types and a strong (though not overplayed) sense of Americana. This looked like an American cowboy, rugged "real men" movie that was going to be tough to sit through, and especially with the title itself dripping with testosterone, we went in with pretty low expectations. Backdraft was cheesy and unabashedly sentimental but earnest and exciting, but Ladder 49 should not be viewed while operating heavy machinery, if you get our drift. If there are two film genres (aside from military movies) that are constantly in danger of getting bogged down in maudlin and macho hero worship, it's true life dramas and firefighter movies. Now, before he moves on to taking the place of the late Tony Scott on Top Gun: Maverick, Kosinki has delivered the "based on a true story" firefighter drama Only The Brave, the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite group of men trained to fight wildfires from the ground. (Image Courtesy Black Label Media and Sony Pictures) Part of a team and other life lessons in the drama Only The Brave. Of The Village People) learns him a thing or two about fightin' faaars, bein' That every man wanted to be when they were a kid (or an aspiring member The new recruit (Miles Teller) listens as the Cowboy Fireman (Josh Brolin) It was more of a mixed name - a guy who could create loud spectacles and give us eye popping visuals, but couldn't deliver substance or a cohesive story line - and that mixed named only continued with Oblivion, which we maintain was an entertaining (if disposable) movie that unfortunately just felt far too much like too many genuine sci fi classics, from the overall Ray Bradbury feel to the surprise twist that it turned out we were actually watching Duncan Jones' indie classic Moon the whole time. James Badge Dale, Taylor Kitsch, Jennifer Connelly Written by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singerĭirector Joseph Kosinksi made a name for himself with 2010's Tron: Legacy, but it wasn't necessarily a good name (in fairness, his name was "Kosinski" to begin with.). Kitsch remembers hearing about the Yarnell Hill Fire when it happened, but never knew the full story until he got the script for this film.Starring Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges In his next film, Only the Brave, the actor combines all that accrued experience for one of his most daunting roles yet: firefighter Chris MacKenzie (“Mac,” as Kitsch calls him), a 30-year-old wildfire specialist who died in the devastating Yarnell Hill blaze that claimed the lives of 19 firefighters in 2013.īased on a harrowing GQ article, Only the Brave, directed by Joseph Kosinski, paints a familial portrait of the 19 “hotshots”-firefighters who are specially trained to tame unforgiving wildfires-who died that day. ![]() He’s also, by his count, played at least six real people (including cult leader David Koresh, in the upcoming series Waco). In his most prominent acting roles, the native Canadian has played a Navy Seal ( Lone Survivor), a California detective ( True Detective), and a star football player ( Friday Night Lights), all with a thread of homegrown panache. You would be forgiven for thinking Taylor Kitsch is the ultimate all-American guy.
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