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Jul 12, 2017hesselugano rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Perhaps it is because I was born around 1950 yet don't feel particularly mostalgic about either Presley or Nixon, but it seems to me there just wasn't enough of a story here to base a movie on. Perhaps if the relevant part of the Nixon archives could have been opened so the scriptwriter could have researched exactly what DID happen in 1971, a better film might have resulted. The actual film chugged along and I gave up on it about half way through. Much as I admire Kevin Spacey, in my opinion his attempt to capture Nixon fared no better than the attempt of Anthony Hopkins. The holy grail in this genre was Val Kilmer's portrayal of Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's "The Doors", Kilmer was so good it was eerie, neither his appearance nor his singing was distinguishable from the original. Perhaps what might have worked better in this movie would have been a relatively unknown actor who actually resembled Nixon lip-syncing his lines while a second player accurately captured Nixon's voice. This dub-in technique worked quite well for the movie "Five Minutes Mr Welles"; D'Onofrio looked like Orson Wells but couldn't do his voice, so the voice of actor Maurice LaMarche was dubbed in. Anyhow this Elvis/Nixon movie seems to a have pleased others so perhaps I'm being too hard on it.Orson Welles (Vincent D'Onofrio), and the actor who provided his dubbed voice ().