Epic performance from Rami Malick and the whole cast

Rating: 9/10 (3 November 2018)

Only one place to start for this review and that is the performance of Rami Malick as Freddie Mercury, this has got to be a potential Oscar nod!! Every Single detail was captured in this performance down to the smallest ticks and pitch changes in possibly 1 of the best retelling of rock gods there can be. As always the song are awesome but brought to life by the performances of the whole cast. Brain May was uncanny, down to the voice and his presence on stage.
From the start of the film we see the rise of a young guy working as a baggage handler in Heathrow airport looking for his big break. Heading down to the uni bar where we see the first band of May and Taylor where they have lost their current lead singer. The opportunist steps up and shows his vocal range where May and Taylor are blown away.
After recruiting John Deacon to the band a few favours are pulled to get a sample album together. With some very odd experimental ideas literally being thrown around, a bin on a microphone and quickly trying to get together a sample before the studio opens for the morning.
Heading off to the record company and promoting their first album, grabbing the deal with both hands to head off to america on their first tour. We also catch a glimpse of the live at the rainbow concert which put them on the road to becoming the music sensations that today we know them as, white capes and all. During the American tour we also get the first of the personal life of Mercury in who he truly knows he is.
After the success of this tour we jump to the fallout of Sher Heart Attack andthe record label is looking for something new to compete with the last single Killer Queen. Heading back to the original studio and the creative process of their greatest hits of their carers, Bohemian Rhapsody. Retracking and Dubing 26 plus times to the point where the tape is wearing out 6 minute long track was born.
Back to the record company where this was the first time that i notice the record producer was Mike Myers and this was a prefect cameo where he mentioned that BoRap would never be played load in teenagers cars and head banged to, Wanyes World anyone!!! This was where Freddie pronounced that he was he producer that lost Queen. A brick through a window later Queen had found their new record label and released the track to the masses.
A Night At the Opera tour montage later the small frays in the group start to emerge along with Freddies party life with the music producer. The performances along this part of the film are so emotional and the 4 together pick the film moving at a great pace for a 2 plus hour run time.
Where we see heartbreaking point Freddie finds out that he has HIV/ Aids and his "friend/ producer" is pushing his solo career, which prompts his ex fiancee to save him basically in a rain soaked evening where Freddie learns about Live Aid for the first time after being promoted for months before hand. Really emotion is shown at this point where he knows hes got a short time to live and needs to reconnect with the family that he lost due to his solo albums.
After a few home truths in the record company with the 4 band mate they start to practice for the Live Aid performance. Where the truth of Freddie's condition comes to light to the whole group, May, Taylor, Deacon and their manager.
The climax of the film is the full 20 mins performance done the full original set justice, BoRap, hammer to fall were just perfect all mannerism for the quartet. One great detail was the manger being able to turn the volume up in one of the best fables in the music industry from this performance.
To end the film here does the music legends justice not to end it on a low in 1991 but one of their biggest and most well know sets.