Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Sanjeev Waters A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

jcjs333 I'm a 74 year old and liked this flick. Justifying or rationalizing 'why' i loved it i'm going to do only because i think i'm required to write a certain number of characters. When i write these things i always read some 'Hate' reviews to see who i disagree or agree with and i get annoyed with those who disagree with me and find reasons for my views to be better. Humorous and human i suppose. I loved that the flick didn't offer 'pat' resolutions and follow formulas i've seen other shows display. I loved that the old codger, like myself, can smoke and make love and look good the next day. One reviewer didn't like that. I liked he's getting it on with a young gal that he loves and she loves him and they have plenty in common. I like he allows and perpetuates her loving him or liking him. One of the greatest thing is to be able to like and really love. To open oneself , not to be loved , as much as 'to love'. This show doe this wonderfully. Cancer and his daughter are, ought to be, important but not as important as their Sam Elliots character. The show doesn't have to 'explain' stuff. I'm a drama lover and shun most all computer flicks which bore me. This stuff never bores me. To each there own. I stayed riveted to this show and thought 'Spiderman' stunk.

galahad58-1 Not sure why people go all gaga when an older actor makes a movie about being an older actor. This is one of the worse renditions of an older actor playing an older actor though. The script is awful as can be - it is poorly written and the majority of the movie is Sam Elliot getting high.These types of movies are supposed to make you feel something positive for the main character, but I didn't like his character at all.A movie that really should not have been made. Not the old character movies that Clint Eastwood makes in any way, shape or form.

DeuceWild_77 If "The Hero" was released before both "The Wrestler" and "Crazy Heart" it could have been more poignant and well-received, but by now, this kind of plot became tired and cliché ridden. Like Mickey Rourke (not much like Jeff Bridges), the trajectory of the lead character mirrors the real life & career of the great (& criminally underused) character actor, Sam Elliott, one of the last truly manly actors in Hollywood, which offered brilliant turns as the supporting performer in a bunch of well-known & nowadays classic or cult movies such as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"; "The Sacketts"; "Mask"; "Road House"; "Rush"; "Tombstone"; "Gettysburg"; "The Big Lebowski"; "We Were Soldiers" among lots of others. His distinctive rugged cowboy looks, sporting a thick mustache and a peculiar, deep & resonant voice, made him being typecast in the cowboy or biker roles, but his sturdy & masculine presence, sweating charisma, always highlighted him above the main cast (especially as Gar in "Mask" or Wade Garrett, Patrick Swayze's mentor in "Road House"). Here, Sam Elliott had finally the chance to fully embrace a lead character, playing a 'washed-out' western movie star, doing voice-overs to survive while looking for work in a Movie Industry that no longer recognizes him as a bankable actor. Elliott's understated, but powerful performance of bringing this tragic character to life, was a 'tour de force' delivering & the last 'hurrah" from a purist old cowboy trapped in a modern world he can't (and don't want to) understand. The movie itself drags on too much for its own good and could have been more meaningful, if a better screenplay was written (or revised), distancing itself a little more from "The Wrestler" stereotype. The supporting players are all there for Elliott, delivering genuine performances from Laura Prepon to Elliott's real life wife and frequent co-star, Katharine Ross ("The Graduate"; "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"; "The Stepford Wives"). A morbid fact is that the pancreatic cancer which the lead character is suffering was the same that, unfortunately, killed Elliott's younger friend and early co-star, Patrick Swayze. Verdict: Even if it wasn't all that original, it's a movie that deserves to be seen and in a perfect world, Sam Elliott should be nominated for the Best Actor in a Leading Role award, it's one of the best (& committed) performances i've seen this year.

Tweetienator A fine little movie with a great cast and a superb tone of melancholy. A little love story, aging, death, loneliness, reconciliation, and the trial about one's life's achievements - The Hero is a quiet movie with all the great themes of human existence. Sam Elliot plays the lead just exquisite and convincing, and the performances of his side-kicks Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter and Nick Offerman give him a lot to work with and the right canvas for his play. The Hero is an emotional, sad and contemplative movie with some bright spots and fine humor refined with some poetic works by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Alone the reading of the poem Dirge Without Music by Laura Prepon at the end of the movie... A movie for a mature audience.