Well balanced biopic

Rating: 8/10 (29 January 2019)

Rami Malek is an actor who gives a 110% performance and he does look like Freddie Mercury towards the end. In the beginning he doesn't resemble him so much because he is a bit too slender and small and his face more irregular than Freddie.
The movie strikes a good balance between the various aspects of his life. The creative process and the success and the Live Aid performance are given prominence. Unlike modern biopics it doesn't focus too much on the salacious or perverted parts of his life. Though they do show his love interests of both sexes. The beginning of onset of AIDS is shown but not his decline and death.
A good reminder of how much his music has made a mark on popular culture.