Only the Brave

Only the Brave is a 2017 American biographical drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski, and written by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer, based on the GQ article "No Exit" by Sean Flynn.

Plot
In 2007 Prescott, Arizona, Eric Marsh of the Prescott Fire Department is frustrated fighting forest fires when the Type 1 or "Hotshot" front line forest fire fighting crews from afar overrule his operational suggestions to his area's sorrow. To change that, Marsh gets approval from the Mayor to attempt to organize an unprecedented certified municipal-based Hotshot crew for Prescott. To that end, Marsh needs new recruits, which include the young wastrel, Brendan McDonough, to undergo the rigorous training and qualification testing for the most dangerous of fire fighting duty. Along the way, the new team meets the challenge and the hailed Granite Mountain Hotshots are born. In doing so, all the men, especially McDonough, are changed as new experience and maturity are achieved in fire-forged camaraderie. All this is put to the test in 2013 with the notorious Yarnell Hill Fire that will demand efforts and sacrifices no one can ignore.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) It stays true to the real-life people who lost their lives during the events of Yarnell Hill Fire were:
 * 2) *Eric Marsh
 * 3) *Brendan McDonough
 * 4) *Duane Steinbrink
 * 5) *Clayton Whitted
 * 6) *Scott Norris
 * 7) *Travis Turbyfill
 * 8) *Jesse Steed
 * 9) *Christopher MacKenzie
 * 10) In addition, the movie pays tribute and dictated to the elite crew of firefighters from Prescott, Arizona who lost 19 of 20 members while fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire in June 2013.
 * 11) Much like the previous films from the film companies, the story is nearly as hellish of excitement.
 * 12) Wonderful acting, especially for Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, James Badge Dale, Taylor Kitsch, and Jennifer Connelly
 * 13) The opening scene has funny parts, such as a kid wearing a Transformer mask scene, not only that, but it has the memorable AC/DC song "Ridin' on a Highway" play in the film.
 * 14) All of the people who died in this event were real-life heroes.
 * 15) The soundtrack that was performed by Joseph Trapanese.
 * 16) Great cinematography.
 * 17) The effects for the fire are pretty realistic making them look even more violent, even in 2017 standards.
 * 18) The ending is pretty sad with the deaths of 19 people and they go on a tree to tribute to 19 lives who died in a fire wave.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The movie can be boring at times, it may not be as exciting to the other fire movie predecessors.

Reception
Only the Brave received very positive reviews from critics and audiences alike, with praise for the cast and the film's touching tribute to its subjects. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 87% based on 160 reviews, with an average rating of 7.09/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Only the Brave's impressive veteran cast and affecting fact-based story add up to a no-frills drama that's just as stolidly powerful as the real-life heroes it honors.". On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.