The Hotshots help, though he must contend with a ne’er-do-well (Taylor Kitsch) with his own immaturity issues.“Hotshots,” the film explains upfront, are an elite group of forest firefighters who are specially trained and certified to go into on-fire areas and establish a controlled fire line that the approaching inferno cannot cross. He must win her back and prove himself a responsible, loving father. The redemption concerns a feckless pothead (Miles Teller) whose pregnant girlfriend has left him because of his indigence and dissolution. (As his avuncular mentor, a veteran fire chief, Jeff Bridges embodies a more conventional template.) Marsh, a bespectacled Buddhist in recovery from substance abuse, is a fascinating variation on your typical taciturn hero. Brolin’s character have their own kind of spark). Marsh is determined to whip the Hotshots into an efficient unit, despite challenges from his forthright wife (a vivid Jennifer Connelly, whose impassioned arguments with Mr. The more aspirational narrative concerns Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin, whose craggy face has never better blended with a parched setting). Amid the familiar milieu, however, there are subtle, inventive touches.
The women in their lives raise children (or train horses) when they’re not scolding their men about neglecting family or the risks of their profession. This is a movie about Southwestern working-class men who drink beer, carry heavy tools, train in quasi-military fashion, banter in a weight room, attend a group family picnic and drive pickup trucks to a soundtrack loaded with AC/DC and ZZ Top. But under its slick, schematic surface, this tale of aspiration and redemption at least offers moments of genuine feeling. had a less generic title and fewer formulaic beats. If only Joseph Kosinski’s action-drama “ Only the Brave” - based on the exploits of the real-life Granite Mountain Hotshots, a troop of elite firefighters near Prescott, Ariz. Given what Northern California has endured recently with wildfires, perhaps it’s high time to honor those risking life and limb to contain such conflagrations.
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