Great Nostalgia and Great performance -

Rating: 8/10 (5 November 2018)

Ami Malek is sensational playing Freddie Mercury in this biopic . The singing is dubbed with a combination of Mercury's own voice and Canadian singer Marc Martel and the first scene they filmed was The famous 1985 Live Aid .Concert which opens and closes the movie.
What is between the opening and closing scenes is the story of an incredible talent matched with an incredible ego that isolated Freddie Mercury at times from those that truly cared for him and supported him.
If it's a true assessment of Mercury's true character and I've no reason to believe it's not he made some terrible judgments as far as his friends associates and his career were concerned but that's perhaps the price of his genius?
I read this was a very difficult film shoot with the director Bryan Singer being fired due to artistic differences with Rami Malek, thank goodness the original choice for the role Sacha Baron Cohen didn't get to play Freddie Mercury.
Rami Malek surely will get a nomination for Best Actor Oscar next year and probably will never get a role as good as this again . I must say the dentures to replicate Freddie Mercury's jaw line I felt were too extreme and took a bit of getting used to but I thought the same about Nicole Kidman's prosthetic nose in The Hours and she won an Oscar for that or some unkind people say she won by a nose.
Apparently as well as watching hours of Freddie Mercury's stage movements and choreography Rami Malek also was advised by his movement coach to study Liza Minnelli in Cabaret as well as Jimi Hendrix , David Bowie and Aretha Franklin all these performers inspired Freddie Mercury's performances and it certainly is evident in the movie.
I didn't come to really appreciate Queen and their brilliance till later in life long after Freddie Mercury had died of AIDS but his story to anyone who lived through that terrible plague and I'm one of them remembers the friends , loved ones and talented performers from all branches of the Arts who's lives were snuffed out prematurely.
I couldn't help thinking that if there had been a Live Aid concert for HIV AIDS similar to the World Famine concert in 1985 how many lives may have been spared ? Alas Ronald Reagan was President till 1989 and his Administration was not interested and apathetic in helping find a cure or even providing relief for AIDS patients until it realised the enormity of the plague and that it infected and involved the whole of humanity .