Elvis (2022)

Elvis is a 2022 biographical musical drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann, who co-wrote the screenplay with Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce and Jeremy Doner. It stars Austin Butler as Elvis Presley and Tom Hanks as his manager Colonel Tom Parker, with Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Xavier Samuel, David Wenham, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Luke Bracey in supporting roles. The film is dedicated to the memory of the Ladd Company’s founder, Alan Ladd Jr., who died in March 2022.

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First: I’ve had a decent backlog of posts, and I’m happy to only post reviews once a week. I did go to see this movie in theater with a group of friends and I have the pictures to prove it! So with that out of the way… a very delayed movie review of a film that you can probably find now on YouTube, Netflix, or Amazon.

I am not an Elvis expert, so I cannot comment on the authenticity of the situations performed in the movie. However, it was very entertaining. Some of the music was used to tell the story, some of it was used as a statement, much of it was just music. Beautiful music.

This movie is not Mamma Mia. There are many adult themes at work here as I’m sure some of you Elvis fans were already aware of. There are also underlying political themes of the time, segregation laws, lewdness, sex, drugs, and rock and roll. But there is also family, music, and friends.

It is very obvious how this movie ends, it’s a historical fact and a biography. So I’m not spoiling anything when I say the movie ends shortly after the untimely passing of Mr. Presley. I appreciated that the end of the movie was a tribute to Elvis Presley and showed footage of the man himself. I would like to see this movie again.

My Ranking: ★ ★ ★ ★