Review of Elvis

Elvis (2022)
4/10
PowerPoint
8 August 2022
This is probably not the first film script to resemble a PowerPoint presentation but it executes the features of a PowerPoint deck with facile clarity. The voice over track from the colonel is like a VP telling us about sales in the Southwest market, while we are visually diverted with many tricks in the software to keep up with his presentation.

Terpsichorean swipes, overlays, vertiginous dives, inserts all dazzle the eye while the brain has gone into a long deep coma because there is no drama here at all; it is superficial rostrum camera and CGI with perfunctory dialogue and simplistic ''Biopic for Idiots'' script plotting that guides takes us through the story to its morbid high cholesterol end.

Even with these manifest faults, it is remarkable that a young man, who stirred the dormant loins of many women, became within a few decades, the ridiculous bloated cabaret parody. That story may yet be told, but, meantime, do not bother with this equally bloated music video from about 1987.
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