’The Founder’ is mesmerized by its hero, McDonald’s chain founder Ray Kroc ( Michael Keaton) , but horrified by how he built his empire l. That king of ambivalence is great; in fact it’s a hallmark of good drama, But there are too many moments when The Founder becomes a buissness-drama variant of that war film problem identified by Francois Truffaut: it’s hard to make a truly anti-war film because war is inherently cenematic, and when you show it, people get swept up in the action anyway.
Then I went to McDonald’s for the first time in over a year and ordered a Quarter Pounder with Cheese and a vanilla shake.