Sabotage

Rating: 7/10 (28 January 2019)

I just finished 'Bohemian Rapsody', the movie. Unfortunately it falls so very short of.....well almost anything actually. Malek does his best but alas his best is not good enough, thus all we get is a choreography-like sequence of shallow Mercury's gestures, grimaces and stage moves for the video clip-educated audience to take joy from their identification. Especially in the first part, Mercury's character portrayal is merely a caricature, full of gay and/or puppy stares, pompous statements and passionless dialogues. At the same time young Freddie looks more like a young Prince (later known as the Artist ðŸ˜€) with protruding teeth than Mercury. Things get even worse in the casting area when it comes to the rest of the band members and reaches its global minimum with the selection of Mike Myers for the role of the EMI executive. Direction uses all the screenplay cliches existing, character depth is absent and song performing scenes could be so much better (if one notices closely, some even had dub problems). Ah, there is one good thing about the movie. Music is good. But i guess you knew that.