They were a local firefighting unit in the Prescott, Arizona Fire Department, led by a veteran firefighter named Eric Marsh (played by Josh Brolin in the movie). SPOILERS: The true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots is actually a very simple one. It’s possible that a movie will one day be made that truly embodies the terror and the beauty of the teams that fight wildfires, but this movie is not the one. Between the poor scripting and the surface-level direction, the movie simply never comes to life. Unfortunately, the film lacks two basic ingredients that could have made it the epic tragedy that it clearly wishes it was: A script and a director. There’s even an acknowledgment of the simultaneous beauty and horror of a forest fire, as expressed in the film by repeated images of a burning bear emerging from an inferno to bound past the camera. The movie chronicles the team’s rise from being a local support crew to one of the elite Hotshot crews, and tries to dig into the personalities of some of the team while acknowledging the extreme danger these crews regularly face. There’s a tremendous potential movie in the Granite Mountain team, and Only The Brave tries to explore it. It has a ready cast and a worthy story to tell – that of the fate of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a firefighting team from Prescott, Arizona who became the major news story of the unfortunate 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire. It tries extremely hard to be a great movie.
Only The Brave really wants to be a gripping, important movie.
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