Ups, downs, ups. Tears, laughter and all just like life. A film I thought had failure written all over it. Then I watched it and was stunned. Brilliant.

Rating: 10/10 (1 April 2019)

To write a review of this movie is hard. Complicated. Like life. When I heard this movie was being made my head sunk. I will make it clear. I am a Queen fan. I thought Freddie Mercury was an incredibly talented person, musician, writer, performer.. I could go on. He was the nucleus, or mitochondria(?) in Queen. But he would not have any success in the music business without the other talented and amazing individual persona's of the rest of Queen.
I also need to make it clear I am not an obsessive fan of Queen. Nothing wrong with being one but my taste in music is wide and broad. Wont bother you with my other taste in music.
But Queen were unique. Making a film about this band, which effectively it is but the central story is rightly Freddie Mercury, I thought would just be too difficult. To put an enternaingly two hour film together telling the story of Freddie Mercury and needingly Queen too and balancing them all together just seemed impossible and switched off interest when I heard it was being made. Then seeing the cast before release in trailers, in the news, in interviews perked my interest. Then the directorial issues made me worry. Then I thought, ok the actors playing the band look like Queen. They sound like Queen talking. Obviously your eyes turn to the actor playing Mercury. But how will the but a good plot for a movie around this?
So I watched it. And I was stunned. No plot spoilers here! You don't need any. You know the Freddie Mercury and Queen story. But this was put together so very well you almost forgot what happened next and needed to see watching.
I worried how they would end the movie. I thought that would be a mess with the ending. I said no spoilers so not detailing any of the plot from start to end. The movie drawed me I every moment to be one of the films I will watch again and again. The music is astounding at every level from the band playing live to practising and record. All intertwined to the different paths our lives lead.
Incredible. A movie based on a band we know much of, a singer who had such a complicated life and wanted to please with his entertaining and also desperately just to be happy.
If you have not seen this film I hope in a little way makes you consider it. If you have seen it hope you can see it is very hard to write a review without giving spoilers or even scenes that made you laugh or cry or just stand up cheering to the powering music at every stage even back to when before Queen there was Smile.
The film is incomparable and touched my heart. If you see it and it gives you only a little what it gave to me you will Smile. For what life is. For where it takes you. And how good sometimes it is.