Elvis

Off of his musical compositions in Halloween, John Carpenter was offered the job to direct the television biopic of Elvis Presley’s life from his childhood to the start of his 1970 Las Vegas tour that revitalized his career. Beset by several of the largest cliches of biopics in general, the film manages to rise above its fairly generic construction to a certain degree on two things. The first and foremost is Kurt Russell’s turn as Elvis, the second is that the first half of the film actually...