Dane Ackley

This movie gets good but it takes way too long to get there, which is very unfortunate. In an era of films like Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman, an Elvis movie should fit right in. Elvis as a film is, at least in the first hour and ten minutes, poorly paced and drags on with narrative for a character (Tom Hanks) that the audience has no reason to be invested in. Once and a while, in the film, we hear music that takes the audience out of the experience because it uses instrumentals and vocals that aren't 'Elvis' and couldn't and wouldn't have been possible in the era in which the movie takes place. The last hour and a half or so of the film is good because it does what movies like it do best, it tells the story of a star for a generation while also including dramatic and emotional sequences. Overall, Elvis is movie that gets buried in padding that, no doubt, makes it hard to warrant watching more than one time.