Director Baz Luhrmann recaptures his Moulin Rouge!
mojo with a hip-swiveling profile loaded with risk and reward.
Martin Luther King Jr. (“He’s not even wearing the sweater!”
Austin Butler in ‘Elvis’.Hugh Stewart/Warner Bros.
a panicky executive barks in the control room, confronted by Butler’s leather-clad, gospel-belting Presley.)
(Even the serious Presley documentaries don’t cement the point as clearly as Luhrmann does.)
“Too many people are making too much money to put you in jail,” a shrewd B.B.
Austin Butler in ‘Elvis’.Warner Bros. Pictures
SometimesElvisfeels like a lostOliver Stonefilm from his daring 1990s heyday: a big-canvas exploration of debauched American appetites.
Fittingly, the Las Vegas years slacken a bit, televisions getting bulleted and pills chased.
