ThiefHott Too much of everything

Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Danny Blankenship Finally after many years watched this original TV movie from 1979 I believe made from NBC simply called "Elvis" and the performance from Kurt Russell was top notch. The film is directed by John Carpenter which was a very early work from him it was just shortly after his 1978 classic "Halloween".Anyway the movie tells of the king's humble start in Mississippi of being poor and growing up living with this parents and his love of music at an early age. Slowly but surely Elvis would rise thru the charts and ranks of life as after striking a record deal he buys a mansion in Memphis for his family. Then the king is drafted into the army where he meets his first love Priscilla, you also see the tragedy that the king experienced from losing his mother Gladys to his disappointment of not getting to become a movie star and that hurt Elvis a great deal.The film is laced well with Elvis songs and Kurt does a pretty good job of carrying those tunes and his look, voice, and actions are real like as the king. Good film that shows the rise of a legend from a humble start and it shows the pain that Elvis experienced with stardom oh yes sorrow is found.

lilcutie18613 This movie is one of those "WOW!" movies. Not because it's the greatest movie of all time, but because it surprised me. Not only was it a T.V. movie, but it was on Elvis. I can safely say as many impersonators as there are there was only one Elvis, but I can also safely say that Kurt Russel came extremely close to being the real thing. It was one of the greatest impersonations that I have ever seen. He had me believing that it was really him. I learned a lot about Elvis' life from watching this movie. And don't led the television part of it let you stray-it's actually a really fantastic film! And Kurt Russel could've been Elvis' twin :)

dtucker86 Elvis Presley was probably the most beloved entertainer of the twentieth century, and one of our most tragic figures. People have talked about Elvis as an ignorant hick who couldn't handle sucess. Lets face it, people who grow up barefoot poor and suddenly become the greatest entertainer in the world don't grow on trees. Someone with the wisdom of Solomon and the patience of Job couldn't deal with that kind of meteoric rise to fame! Elvis was a case of too much too soon. Kurt Russell had been in a film with Elvis when he was a child actor and this movie was probably the first one made of his life. It was released in February of 1979 a year and a half after Elvis's death. Its hard to believe that John Carpenter directed it, I always think of him for Halloween and Escape From New York, he did a great job I think. Kurt Russell looked enough like Elvis to pass muster with me, but he did more then that, he captured Elvis's soul and made him a flesh and blood character, not the one that you read about in The National Enquirer. I remember what I liked most about this film was its sensitive portrait of Elvis and his mother. It was said that there was never a more devoted son and Shelly Winters did a great job as Gladys and the scenes of Elvis at her deathbed and when she passed away are heartbreaking. People who knew him said that he was never the same afterwards. I have always wondered that if his mother had lived that he would have had a lot of the problems that he did that eventually led to his death at the age of 42.

skmagan This is a great movie, too bad it's not on VHS or DVD. Russell does the best impersonation of Elvis Presley I ever saw & I saw them all. :) This movie doesn't go into the last years of his life, but we don't really want to remember Elvis all bloated, we want to remember him like this movie portrayed him as.