Torn

Rating: 6/10 (31 January 2019)

I'm not a huge Queen fan, but I know the history of the band and their enigmatic front man, the best voice in rock, Freddy Mercury. And the historical inaccuracies drove me crazy. If you look at the trivia it's swarming with faults. If this gets the Oscar for best movie, it's certainly not for the movie itself, but more for the sentiment.
But if Malek gets it for his performance of Freddie, it's deserved. I've seen Live Aid, and it was perfect; the little manners, the big gestures, everything was spot on.
And I think it was too tame; Freddie's life was not so cookie cutter, so show it. This was not what Freddie wanted. He said in the last days of his life to Jim Beach; "Do anything you want with my music dear, but never make me boring!"
And the movie did him no favors on that part.