It's okay

Rating: 5/10 (1 April 2019)

It's a good movie with a very good cast, the music is obviously great. If I'm not mistaken, this is the first big role for Rami Malek and he carries it (although for the first half hour, I couldn't help but think that's just Rami Malek with a wig). The reason why I'm giving the movie only 5/10 is because as far as the script goes, it doesn't give me anything more than a Wikipedia article. Being an artist usually means maintaining a certain image, but making a movie about artists' lives - at least for me - promises a more in-depth look of their personal battles, evolution, relationships etc. Here, everything you see, you already know. So, the film felt like a long music video intertwined with scenes, marking well-known moments of their professional career highlights and a little bit of personal moments (nothing you don't know). The director and the scriptwriters could have achieved much more with a run time of 2 hours.