mrnomore

...but instead, the script fell of the creative shelf and straight into the quick money-making hamper.

The beginning is good (why I gave it a 4 star). It was strong and beautiful. When Jimmy (Anthony Hopkins) comes in, there's a strong feeling of something cooking and an involvement is created.

And then comes the first fighting scene where everything, and I mean EVERYTHING breaks into 1000 pieces of irregular, random pieces from every corner of the universe.

The choreography is just sad. Watching a lot of Korean movies, I'm used to well executed fights and action. In comparison, this was such an extremely disappointing experience that I had to look again who produced and directed it.

Cliché after cliché and stereotype after stereotype, the director fails completely to engaging me in the story. Loss didn't touched me. Death didn't move me. Environments didn't convinced me. And so on...

Such a shame.

The story is very interesting and the history behind is scary, but there's so much missing. I saw literally about 15 motorcycles in the whole movie. There was no character to follow even tho it begun with a monolog from someone you think would play a bigger roll in this.

There's also a lack of contrast between the two worlds. Everything feels very shallow and it never lets you inside of the reality this movie is based on.

Interviews are good, but again, not enough depth. No one asks the people responsible "Why?". No interviews with the police and their view on the situation.

A shame, really. I'd love to follow some of these guys and get a feeling of what's going on. Can't make a documentary by being afraid. Then you end up with something like this.

First of all: 1. No. I did not find the movie to be a perfect description of Elvis or his music.

2. No. I didn't think they've gotten everything right.

3. No. I didn't think they've gotten everything important in there.

4. And no. I don't think Austin Butler looks anything like Elvis...

...but he became Elvis in this movie. He played relaxed and confident like if he really was Elvis.

People write things like "there isn't enough of his music" and "this was wrong" and "that was too little". I know quite a bit about the King and I didn't mind all the incorrect and missing things because I was taken by the story told.

Whether you like it or not, depends on what you want from a movie like this. It's NOT a documentary about Elvis life, but a presentation of what happened to him and why. It was very clear to me from the beginning what this movie was about and I followed the red thread with pleasure.

The old/modern musical and visual mixture worked very well and a bit of "Moulin Rouge!" in other clothes was driving me through Mr. Presley's memory lane.