Rate it: Elvis (2022)

for a movie thats 2 hours and 40 minutes long, so THICC and dense with things it wants to show me, it never left me with anything being said. The longest tiktok fan cam ive ever seen. and Tom Hanks was there too doing that thing he did for some reason 4/10

3.5... if it ends up higher than Lean I swear 

5.5

Not merely lesser than Sofia Coppola's Priscilla.....but lesser as a movie than things that aren't even movies at all - like the Andrew Savage song Elvis In The Army or a double cheeseburger.......

There is nothing Rock and Roll about it.........much less King of Rock and Roll about it.......There is also nothing great in it either........

The portrayal of Elvis is like a copy of a copy of an Elvis Impersonator - compare this to Jonathan Rhys Meyers performance......and that wasn't great either.....in many ways the Barbie of its year made by people who misunderstand America, Pop Culture phenomena and the intersection of Art with commerce........

“When The Legend Becomes Fact, Print The Legend Bullshit

7.

A movie that is very much about celebrating the mythology of Elvis and using that as a way to either blame his faults on Colonel Parker or smooth right past them. But as a mythmaking tale and sensory experience, this is the most consistently I've ever been on Baz's wavelength and Butler does a terrific job with landing the larger-than-life persona while still connecting it to something resembling humanity. Also, I know Hanks gets some shit from people but this is to my mind the funniest he's been in years.

I do prefer Priscilla but I find them exceedingly interesting as companion films.

8/10. Butler is good and Baz hits it out of the park visually as always.

5.5

The movie definition of a shoulder shrug

8/10

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