She’s an actual horse whisperer, rescuing and rehabilitating magnificent creatures from the region that have been abused and neglected. Jennifer Connelly is heartbreakingly effective as Eric’s wife Amanda.Josh Brolin gives one of the finest performances of his career as Eric “Soup” (as in Supervisor) Marsh, the rugged and tightly wound local fire chief of the small and close-knit community of Prescott, Arizona, who has been trying for years to get his crew upgraded from second-tier “mop-up” work to status as frontline first responders who run straight to wildfires even as the blazes consume acre after acre, often boring down on the neighborhoods below.But thanks to a slow build that allots time for us to absorb and sympathize with their back stories, not to mention the universally effective work from the outstanding cast, they’re a plausible and likable bunch - so by the time they’re risking everything, literally fighting fire with fire, we are deeply invested in their respective fates. We meet a half-dozen or so stock characters, and in many cases we can see the path laid out for them well before they see it. “Only the Brave” is one of three such films coming out this weekend alone, along with “Goodbye Christopher Robin” and “Breathe.” When we get to the closing montage, and we see photos of the cast members alongside pictures of the actual Granite Mountain Hotshots and their family members,we are spent and we are deeply moved and we are grateful for their heroism and for a movie that gives them their due.ĭirected in solid and well-paced fashion by Joseph Kosinski, with a powerful (if occasionally too symbolic and heavy-handed) screenplay by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer, “Only the Brave” tells the story of a company of some 20 firefighters who risked their lives to battle monstrous blazes in the Southwest - but it plays like a classic military story about soldiers from various walks of life who bond as brothers.
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