Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Michael O'Keefe This is a tongue in cheek look at an actual meeting between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon. On December 21, 1970, Elvis, armed with a gun and chemically enhanced, met in the Oval Office with President Nixon. The reason for the meeting was Elvis' request for a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, thus making him an agent-at-large of the DEA. Hard to believe, but true...the visit was a success.Rick Peters does an over the top parody of Presley. Bob Gunton is a very laughable President Nixon. Also in the cast are: Curtis Armstrong, Alyson Court and Denny Doherty.Quite a bizzarre event and in retrospect you see the hypocrisy and contrasting truth to be pretty silly.

shaag They should release this sucker on DVD, it's incredible. I showed it to my friend that doesn't even care for Elvis and he was rolling on the floor! Elvis and Nixon were both so huge in real life, that's it's incredible to see them interact. And all the people commenting on the King were awesome, like Wayne Newton.

sbox Fact is always stranger than fiction. However, this is a comedy. As such, I can't fault the producers for creating fiction around a real event.The stereotypes serve well as background briefs to modern audiences who may not know squat about either the King or the President.Elvis wanders the night, shoots television sets out at will, dresses like. ..well. . .Elvis and maintains his good old boy composure. Likewise, Nixon broods, works on his enemies list, and rattles off every Nixon trademark statement from various years.There is a lot of humor in this film. Those who don't know the history of the times will probably be left dumbfounded.

lefty-11 A definite highlight of this excellent movie is the summary of Tony Curtis on Elvis's letter to Nixon, "a classic, so charming in its naive simplicity". This uncannily accurate recreation of historical events, which seems at times almost too surreal to be true, radiates the charm Curtis mentions, tempered by the pathos in the meeting of 2 men with shared fears about a world they apparently feared they could no longer influence or understand. E's journey to Washington seems familiar from the adventures of other "childman" heroes in "Crocodile Dundee", "Being There" and "Forrest Gump", but differs in not advocating a nostalgic retreat to simpler values in the face of social complexity. Instead, compared to Nixon, E comes across as an unwitting cultural revolutionary, who tragically couldn't understand his own impact .