Elvis & Nixon manages to capture why the public retain such curiosity for these influential, eccentric men.
There’s not a lot of consequence to this bizarre meeting, or really the film, but as a character study of two men alone at the top, it’s both very funny and quietly astute.
This is a film that feels like a bar room anecdote stretched to feature length and wildly embellished in the process. It’s a very likeable movie, though, and one that you warm to in spite of its lack of substance... and of Elvis music.
It is all very watchable but what it needs is a little less conversation and a lot more action.
Kevin Spacey and Michael Shannon play one of history’s oddest couples in this entertaining account of the day Presley arrived unannounced at the White House.
Revisiting the time Elvis Presley met President Richard Nixon at the White House sounds like a great idea, but the film runs out of ideas as it founders between solemnity and humour.
Kevin Spacey plays the president for laughs in a slight but enjoyable imagining of Elvis’s real life meeting with Nixon.
Elvis & Nixon: A film about the bond between the king of rock and roll and the president
Elvis and Nixon, Reagan and Jacko, Jagger and Blair...when pop stars and politicians collide.
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