Sam Elliott isn’t allowed to act anymore. He can’t show up as a stunt-casting gimmick on “Will and Grace,” or in some throwaway action flick. He can’t even voice-over a barbecue sauce commercial. No, he made “The Hero” (2017), which is one of those magnum-opus-type star turns that aging actors suddenly summon when they still haven’t won a major award. Sam plays a pot-smoking actor who made a great cowboy film long ago, but he’s dying now, and he’s trying to figure out how to die, and still live, and it’s pretty impressive. So no more acting, Sam. We’re good.
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I watched “The Founder” (2017) during the week that Tropical Storm Harvey devastated Houston and for some reason, I connected the two. From a distance, way up high, hurricanes are truly a thing of beauty to behold, both in design and power. Down at the surface, however, things can get ugly and downright inhumane. My understanding of the McDonald’s restaurant story has mostly been lofty – a quintessential American success (with vague undercurrents of controversy). This beautifully filmed, superbly acted adaptation provides a street-level (gutter-level?) version, a rat-eat-rat, greed-is-good, coffee-is-for-closers version that only a Lomanesque salesman like Ray Kroc could love.
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