The first reviews of Elvis, Baz Luhrmann’s film starring Austin Butler, are not very positive, especially the script.
Elvis It hits theaters on June 24. This is the new film by Baz Luhrmann, an eccentric director of films such as The Great Gatsby (2013), Australia (2008), Moulin Rogue (2001) or Romeo+Juliet by William Shakespeare (nineteen ninety six). Now the biopic of the so-called king of rock. With story and script Jeremy donerhas the leading role of austin butler. It produces Warner Bros. Pictures and the trailers advanced a visual display in the style of the filmmaker. However, the first criticisms that have come to light speak of a disappointing script (via ScreenRant).
This is what critics think about the film!
ScreenDaily. “Although he suffers from the typical Baz Luhrmann weakness (a style that surpasses his substance), the concert footage effortlessly reveals why Elvis Presley remains a revered musical figure.”
Variety. “A 2hr 39min fever dream, effervescent, delusional, mischievously energetic, compulsively enjoyable.”
Indie Wire. “Austin Butler gives a performance fit for the King, but he’s buried alive under a rhinestone roller coaster of lame biopic platitudes.”
IGN. “A wild experience, clearly made with a lot of love for his leading lady: his eagerness to portray the humanity of Elvis, both his director and his star, outweighs his excesses.”
Guardian. “A relentless montage, frantically flashy, epic and yet insignificant at the same time, without variation of rhythm.”
dead line. “Butler thrillingly triumphs, especially in the first half of the film, with a sheer pace that makes us wonder what greater heights Elvis might have scaled if he hadn’t succumbed to the dark side.”
The Hollywood Reporter. “While the writing rarely lives up to its stunning visual impact, the director’s affinity for his leading lady is infectious and exhausting.”
TheWrap. Baz Luhrmann playfully distorts the legend’s life in this outlandish biopic. In part, it’s an inspired tribute to a titanic force in American music.”
Los Angeles Times. “It loses one of Luhrmann’s greatest assets as a filmmaker, which is his ability to quell platitudes with sincerity, energy and feeling.”
The country. “A stomach-churning delirium: the sum of Luhrmann and Graceland is simply too much. But the worst thing is not its predictable extravagance or its aesthetics, but how it reduces the musician’s life to that of a kind of comic book superhero.
The world. «Dazzling visual and sound exercise weighed down by, who would say, the lack of rhythm. The script seems to be at least repetitive in its soulless spectacularity. It is true that the light is so great that at times there is nothing left but to surrender».
