As the months past, he rises to the challenge and even bonds with a former tormentor, Christopher (Taylor Kitsch). After surviving an arduous hike, Marsh decides to take a chance on Brendan. He’s just found out that a former fling is pregnant with his child, which spurs him to get his “act” together. One hopeful is Brendan McDononugh (Miles Teller), a directionless twenty-something who retreated to the bottle and the bong after flunking out of some training courses. But he needs to beef up their ranks, so he begins interviews and try outs. But Marsh wants his crew to become officially accredited by the state of Arizona, to become “hotshots”. They do the “grunt ” work and the prep for nearby towns. He then leaves for work as the captain to a squad of firefighters, a hand crew that goes into to stop wildfires, who report to the Fire Chief Duane Steinbrink (Jeff Bridges). For his wife, horse trainer Amanda (Jennifer Connelly), this is fairly common. It’s the usual scenario that involves a charging bear on fire, an “ursine torch”. Nearly ten years ago, Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin) bolts upright in bed after a nightmare. Such is the mission of the Granite Mountain Hotshots from the Prescott Arizona Fire Department. These guys fight the fires that consume forests, hoping to stop their journey before the flames reach the towns and cities. Rather they are firefighters, but they aren’t roaring down the street on a fire truck, dalmatian in tow, ready to climb the ladder to a “towering inferno”.
And with their special clothing and gear ,they could be mistaken for soldiers.
Well, these heroes aren’t on foreign soil, though they are on the front line, one made of flame. You may be thinking that’s it’s another those on the front line, our soldiers overseas sagas as in the films THE HURT LOCKER and AMERICAN SNIPER. And it shines a light on the families that must stay behind and hope that all goes well. It concerns a group of men who regularly risk their lives, and often make the ultimate sacrifice, in order to protect their fellow men. Unlike this weekend’s other non-fiction flicks, it’s set in the not too distant past, not decades ago, but in this decade, the 2010’s. Here’s yet another “inspired by true events” film, just in time for the somber Fall season.
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