Being that it is now available for rent - we watched it last night.
It is disjointed, confusing at times, dazzling and bad.
Just bad.
For the first time perhaps ever, I will say Tom Hanks was the wrong actor to play Col Parker. The makeup was bad, bad enough it constantly announced itself scene after scene. A better choice would have been Dan Akroyd who, I believe, could have played the cheesiness of Col Parker that Hanks just didn't hit.
The stylistic scenes that were thrown in, did not belong. Two rap songs were played. Really?? Rap songs? It didn't fit. Modern music placed in late 1950s scenery is wrong. All the music you had to choose from - and the producer chose Rap??
The scene with Little Richard. Obviously tried to make him fit the modern trans person. He was not. Little Richard was one "out there" dude. No doubt. He was all over the place. But he was not trans. He did not look like a skinny little girl/boy on stage. He wore suits and ties and if anything was overtly masculine in his early years. It wasn't until the 1970s that, like other performers, started wearing flamboyant costumes and crossing sexual lines. If he would have acted like this ridiculous portrayal in 1959 - he would have probably been found beat to death behind the joint.
All in all I was seriously disappointed.
The Elvis story, without embellishments, is interesting enough. A man with enormous talents surrounded by people who tricked/abused and used him. Indeed, there are really only two people in his entire life that didn't use him for money. Priscilla and his mother. And the former he took for granted and abandoned, only to deeply-deeply regret losing her.
This movie is not an Elvis story. It is a fantasy piece kinda sorta surrounding real events.
Skip it. If you were hoping finally for a decent movie about Elvis - you won't find it here.
