Quiet, personal and refreshingly introspective.

It's one of his finest and most memorable performances. Unfortunately, the script fails to rise to the level of Elliott's artistry.

Two good things are not enough to goose this all-too-familiar tale of a selfish man who wakes up one day, realizes that he blew it and scrambles to fix it before it's too late.

The Hero is a sublime epistle to the silver screen specter cast by Sam Elliott.