Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

tophercaringo I had no clue about the start up of McD's, so it was cool to learn the beginning of the story. Keaton really played the grimy and unethical businessman role amazingly. The McDonald brothers also were portrayed well, and apparently very accurately from what I've researched. I'm glad that I put this on. One of the better movies available on Netflix at this time.

Matthew D Booth Even though McDonald's started in California it flourished in the Midwest and Central States first, so I think people from there will find this very interesting Bio Pic more appealing than most. Michael Keaton stars !! as Ray Kroc. Get Entertained and Learn something ?

saru-88447 McDonalds: A hell of a good inspirational story. Just about how the founder found a way to own the land and to lease the property to the franchise to run the business all over the world. The story of a man who succeded with huge persistence and determination but not with talent or education as it clearly states that this world is full of educated fools.

jtncsmistad The late Ray Kroc was a selfish, conniving, hard drinking, ruthless jerk. He was also the driving force behind the most successful restaurant franchise in the history of mankind. And what man, or woman, has not partaken in a meal from Kroc's iconic Golden-Arched eateries? If you've never dined at McDonald's you would certainly seem to be among a minority, as 1% of the planet's population feeds from the bistro's menu every single day.Michael Keaton continues his brilliant career resurgence with an Oscar-caliber performance as the enigmatic hamburger king of kings. Keaton succeeds in giving us Kroc's cold-hearted crustiness certainly. But the gifted veteran actor also taps into the mostly hidden heart of this no b.s. global giant of business, as well. For example, while simultaneously stealing the original passion project of the McDonald brothers for his own, Kroc also literally offers them a blank check to do his bidding.While the guy was by and large a total a-hole, it is not made clear in the film why Kroc did not want Ethel (Laura Dern excelling in a typically natural turn), his first wife of three and of nearly 40 years, to benefit at all from the vast and burgeoning McDonalds's empire when the couple divorced in the early 1960's. Ethel is portrayed as a long-suffering supporter of an endless string of her husband's harebrained sales schemes to get rich. And yet in a scene where Kroc has the opportunity to reward his decades-long and dutiful partner he fervidly refuses to do so. Evidently this is a dynamic that Director John Lee Hancock and Writer Robert D. Siegel collectively chose not to explore. And it is particularly puzzling."The Founder" is a rare commodity-a movie that is damn near as educational as it is entertaining. You may come away not necessarily wanting to have learned what a crappy guy the founder of odds are is one of your fave fast food joints was in terms of how he treated too many people. But I'll bet this knowledge doesn't stop you from, at least on occasion, continuing to munch out on a mighty Big Mac. You want fries with that? Don't we all?