One of the rescuers is Jack Morrison, played with great realism by Joaquin Phoenix. The audience is soon informed that the gas from the grain will blow at any instant.Ī rescue team is sent into the building to retrieve a few people on the 12th floor. The movie opens as they attempt to fight a tremendous out of control fire in a grain elevator building. LADDER 49 is the ladder company of Firehouse 33 in Baltimore, Maryland. It could have been a great movie, but the attempt to pay homage to firefighters becomes slightly too cloying and tendentious at points.
LADDER 49 is a bighearted, entertaining, and poignant movie. A movie with so much faith and values is refreshing. Of course, these are part of the human condition. In the midst of a movie that contains a lot of references to faith and Jesus, some of the cautions are the foul language and the implied premarital escapade between Jack and Linda, which leads to their marriage. It helps us understand the fears of their families. LADDER 49 makes clear why these men are heroes and shows the sacrifices they make. It shows the camaraderie of the firemen and their Catholic faith, which pulls them together. The movie develops tales of valor and poignant moments of concern on the parts of families. The fire chief played by John Travolta deploys the firemen to rescue Jack. A rescue team is sent in to save a few people, and one of the rescuers, Jack, played by Joaquin Phoenix, falls two stories through the floor after performing a heroic rescue. It opens as firefighters beat back a tremendous blaze in a grain elevator building where the gas from the grain is about to blow. LADDER 49 is a bighearted, entertaining, poignant movie.
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