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Rating: 3/10 (21 March 2019)

8.1/10 ? Really ? This movie is the most overrated movie of 2018, and I love queen !
I would like to begin with what I liked. Ramy Malek's performance as Freddy is phenomenal and it deserves all the praise its getting. Then the live aids is recreated really well, which is impressive. But that's kinda it...
Now for the bad part. Nothing in the story is real ! The way they met, the producer that refuses Bohemian Rhapsody, Freedy's relationships with his boyfriends or Queen's "separation" all of this is either romanticized or even not true at all. But that's not the problem, I have no issues with depictions of real events that aren't romanticized to give the audience a great story, The Social Network does that and it's an amazing movie. Here, they decided to change the story to have the most basic, unoriginal and bland plot of a rock band becoming famous. This is the same story we've heard a million times, but hey, it's Queen so who cares am I right ?
I'm going to admit that I enjoyed watching the movie, but as soon as I started thinking about it, it became worse and worse. I believe this movie is rated 8.1/10 just because it is Queen. That's the only reason, you're all (and I was) blinded by either nostalgia or your deep love for Queen's music. Because boy oh boy is there a ton of Queen's music in this movie, everywhere, at any time. They even got as far as recreating nearly the full Live AIDS concert, which, I'll admit is impressive. But why ? 20 min of concert ? In a MOVIE ? It doesn't move the plot forward, it doesn't develop characters, it just wastes time ! But it's Queen so everything is alright, right ? No everything is not alright, this is not acceptable. For a movie that praised and for Queen we should expect a better movie that this. And that editing, my god how the hell did it get Best Editing at the Oscars ?
Just think about the movie a bit more and you'll see all the problem it's got. We deserve a better Queen movie...