An average movie

To be honest, after this movie had been trashed by the critics, I wasn't expecting much it but since it still turned out to be a huge box-office success, I thought I might as well check it out. The fact that so many people turned out to see this movie didn't really surprise me though. I mean, the Transformers and The Fast and The Furious franchises have displayed that you can make a lot of money with some seriously weak movies. No, what really amazed me was that such a rather weak movie could reach such a high score on IMDb (8.1 right now). Anyway, thanks to Freddie Mercury's incredible charisma, Queen's catchy music and an amazing performance by Ramy Malek, the damned thing was still watchable but there is no doubt that everything else was pretty lame. I mean, basically, right from the start, it was obvious that they wouldn't take any risks so they delivered a really straightforward biopic. Indeed, it seems that the only goal of the makers was to reach most of the milestones regarding this legendary band and it did it without much passion or conviction which was obviously rather disappointing but it was made worse by the fact that they messed up so many real facts about Mercury and Queen in general. The way they handled Mercury's sexuality was also rather bewildering. I mean, they put a lot of time and focus on how he met Mary Austin but his first gay love affair was apparently with some random truck driver in the US? Afterwards, they gave some very short glimpses of gay clubs and parties but it was never properly developed which was rather surprising since the director, Bryan Singer, is gay himself so you would have expected a more convincing approach from him, but, on the other hand, he did get fired from the job before completing the shoot. Anyway, to conclude, even if it wasn't the worst biopic I have seen, it was still pretty weak but I guess it is still worth a look, if only to witness Queen and Freddy Mercury's awesome charisma and for Rami Malek's stellar performance.

6/10