Conventional.

Rating: 6/10 (12 November 2018)

Oh, this was a good movie all right, with great, little-known actors, great music (the guy doing Freddie's voice was just as good as the one playing him), but IMO it lacked vision, it lacked grandeur.
The shots, the way they told stories, the montage, all reflect "playing safe", something Queen never has done in their carreer. There was no excess, no subjective shots, no geist of the time - I would have like to see the encounter between Mercury and Bowie for "Under Pressure", for exemple, but the movie kinda existed in a conventional vaccuum. It was also a bit long, and binary in moralistic colours.
There were however some strokes of genius like Myers' reacting in a very different way to a particular song he did act differently to some decades ago. The rooster also made the theatre laugh. But alas, I don't think this film will make history, because it is merely informative and pleasant whereas it should have blew us away - much like Queen did. I guess I expected more.