Spacey steals the scenes, but this fails next to "Elvis Meets Nixon"

"Elvis & Nixon" is a sometimes funny, but mostly entertaining film about the King meeting up with President Nixon in the Oval Office. Produced by Jerry Schilling, one of the guys who actually made the trip with Elvis, one would think that most of what we see is accurate but sadly it isn't. At least at the White House. Michael Shannon plays Presley and looks nothing like him. But he is playing the King straight and although he doesn't have the same voice as Elvis he does have many of his inflections down pretty well. Kevin Spacey steals the scenes he is in, and he plays Nixon. This also stars Johnny Knoxville, Colin Hanks and Tate Donovan. This is well worth checking out if you are an Elvis fan, or if you are just interested in how a human being could write the President and end up meeting him the same day is a feat I am not sure anyone could have done other than Elvis. This has better actors in it, but the better Elvis and Nixon movie is "Elvis Meets Nixon". ** 1/2 out of 4 stars