Rami Malek IS Freddie Mercury

Rating: 8/10 (14 November 2018)

I really liked it despite the fact that the direction was often all over the place but I guess that had to do with the replacement of Bryan Singer after 2 third of the film as some scenes show different style. That and of course that it is not 100% historical accurate.. but then.. which biopic is? Getting this out of the way I have to see it was a great portray of a brilliant musician who, like many brilliant musicians, died far too young.
It was maybe a bit overlong, you could have cut it here and there but other than that it really drove me into the life of Freddie Mercury and into his personality. A huge fact why his succeeded is the outstanding perfomance by Rami Malek who deserves all applauses you can get for this extremely authentic portray. He really got the characteristics, movements and what is most difficult the charisma of Mercury to the point. Terrific. Also many of the other performances were good like the one by Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy and Joseph Mazzello, to a lesser extend. Mike Myers was also ok , despite many negative reviews he received. As expected the soundtrack was awesome and the true highlight of the film was the portray and recreation of the legendary Live Aid concert.