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Season One: Very interesting premise, well acted, beautifully directed, good world building, thought provoking, debate fodder. Story ticks along at a tidy pace and keeps you engaged.

Season Two: Gets very, very, very boring. Sours you on the first season where you thought they were really on to something with this idea.

I have the last two episodes of season two still to watch, and I probably will watch them, but I've been so bored so far I am just finishing for the sake of finishing.

If you filter the reviews by date, you'll see a lot agree with me so I'm not saying anything new.

I'm just being very honest. I have no appetite for season three whatsoever.

Pathetic. If you last beyond the weak opening credit sequence into the actual meat of the film it just gets embarrassing.

Guy emails Al Gore to ask about an interview. Al Gore (rather intelligently) doesn't reply. So guy interviews an AI program with AL Gore's image instead. This would be the digital age equivalent of making a felt puppet of Al Gore and interviewing that with the puppet quoting Gore's books.

Poorly made trash. A complete waste of everyone's time and does nothing to further the conversation.

Real pity after all these years we still cannot give a movie zero stars on IMDb.

This barely qualifies as a movie though, more like a comedy sketch.

When I realised this was going to be made by Baz Luhrmann my heart sank. I don't rate him as a director and feel his films are style over substance to the max.

The first hour of this film is an absolute mess but finds it rhythm when the action moves to the comeback special and on to Las Vegas.

Austin Butler was a fantastic piece of casting and he flings himself into the role. Tom Hanks does his thing with ease but it's not much of a stretch for him.

What really annoyed me was the way the music was treated. Remixes, hip hop beats and rap verses are added to Elvis' songs and it is totally unnecessary. The songs were good enough as they were.

Also, the opening of the '68 comeback special is one of the most iconic moments in rock and roll but Luhrmann decides to go with a totally different song. I guess he knows better.

The film does some things right, the stage at the International is lovingly recreated and the make up effects are spot on but overall it's not as good as the sum of its parts and will NOT go down as the definitive Elvis biopic.