POSITIVES
As a celebration of the man, the legend, the King Of Rock Elvis Presley, this is a very solid and entertaining film that fans should appreciate.
Highlights some of the most significant chapters in his life, from the whole controversy regarding his leg movements, his TV comeback special, to his Vegas residency era, plus more. There’s a lot to grab your attention here.
The visual narrative is super energetic and kinetic to watch, with an edit that forces you to keep your eyes glued on the screen at all times. It’s almost like a long form montage, and that’s actually not a bad thing.
Austin Butler is phenomenal as Elvis Presley, and Tom Hanks really creates quite the character as Colonel Tom Parker. The two parallel stories surrounding them, and their partnership is really the cornerstone of this movie, and will keep you constantly engaged with this musical biopic.
Needless to say, the soundtrack is fantastic. Elvis’ songs are presented well here, and might just make you want to get up and dance! Austin Butler even sang several of them as well with aplomb.
NEGATIVES
It’s still a musical biopic and does typical musical biopic stuff.
This musical biopic does take liberties. Some would say that they are an unnecessary misrepresentation of the facts, that will make some people ask “did that really happen?!” The movie doesn’t even really cover every aspect of Elvis’ history.
Visual narrative just does not stop moving! It can feel a little too overwhelming to keep up at times. It’s a decently long movie too, and there’s a point when you might just feel exhausted watching it, just wanting to catch your breath for a bit.
Some of the songs in the soundtrack are of the more “modern” variety, and I felt like they shouldn’t have bothered including them, as I myself wanted more even Elvis songs featured than what we got.
Could this be just for Elvis fans or Baz Luhrmann fans? I’m not sure how well this would actually play for non-fans.
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