You can see it in virtually every frame of the movie. The camera spins and twists. It zips down highways at super-accelerated speeds. It tilts and dollies. The editing jitters and zaps us through space.
Nothing stays still that can be placed in motion, to twirl, to soar, to explode.
And somewhere within this incredibly hyperactive filmmaking, a quintet of Elvis Presley impersonators stalk the Riviera Casino in Las Vegas, intent on pulling off a major heist. When I saw the trailers for 3000 Miles to Graceland , I knew I had to see this movie. The idea of a gang of Elvis impersonators pulling a heist in Las Vegas is a marvelous concept. In film noir classics such as Double Indemnity or Out of the Past , the downbeat stories were evoked with a filmmaking style that underscored the fatalistic vision of the scripts. Filmmaking reinforced theme.