It was enough

Rating: 8/10 (4 November 2018)

It didn't quite knock my socks off as much as I thought it would but it was still a rollicking good ride through Queen's glorious reign. They provided the score to my teens and twenties and just hearing some of those songs again was glorious.
The film has copped a lot of flack. Apparently, it is thought by some to be a vehicle towards garnering more attention to the remaining members of Queen. Some have criticised the lack of depth to which the film probed Freddie's personal life and his complicated relationships with lovers and friends.
I thought what it gave was enough. Enough to realise that he was complex and at the very heart of it an insecure man who sought love and attention in ultimately destructive ways. The media was out for sordid details when he was alive (as evidenced in one scene of the film) and the thirst for those same details long after he is dead is just sad.
He was an imperfect artiste extraordinaire - please, let's just leave it at that.