The great parts :
Austin Butler's outstanding performance. All three 3 stars of my review lie here.
The ok parts : The set design and some of the cinematography
The bad parts : literally everything else. From the mindboggling decision to base the movie on an 80s Batman movie villain version of Colonel Parker instead of Elvis, to Tom Hanks portrayal of said character complete with scene chewing overacting and bizarre accent,(Especially galling when Butler oozes charisma in every scene that he IS allowed to shine in).
Then there's the bewildering idea to feature modern music, including rap of all things instead of well, Elvis songs.
It's frustrating, annoying, incoherent, deliberately obnoxious, overly meandering and a huge missed opportunity.
I purged it by watching the 1979 Elvis biopic starring Kurt Russell and directed by John Carpenter after. It has its faults but at least Elvis is the main character and it's actually coherent.
The ok parts : The set design and some of the cinematography
The bad parts : literally everything else. From the mindboggling decision to base the movie on an 80s Batman movie villain version of Colonel Parker instead of Elvis, to Tom Hanks portrayal of said character complete with scene chewing overacting and bizarre accent,(Especially galling when Butler oozes charisma in every scene that he IS allowed to shine in).
Then there's the bewildering idea to feature modern music, including rap of all things instead of well, Elvis songs.
It's frustrating, annoying, incoherent, deliberately obnoxious, overly meandering and a huge missed opportunity.
I purged it by watching the 1979 Elvis biopic starring Kurt Russell and directed by John Carpenter after. It has its faults but at least Elvis is the main character and it's actually coherent.