Totally worthwhile biopic of Freddie Mercury. Best Actor for Malek.

Rating: Null/10 (13 March 2019)

My wife and I watched this in March 2019 at home on BluRay from our public library. I watched it again in January 2020. Picture and sound are first rate.
This movie almost swept the film awards season, winning many of them and just missing "Best Picture" Oscar. But Malek did get the Oscar for his performance.
Back when they were most popular I never recall paying any particular attention to the rock group "Queen" but as a music lover have long been aware of their name. And of course the lead singer Freddie Mercury, without him in particular this would have been a very forgettable band.
Rami Malek, who shares similar ancestry, plays Freddie Mercury who in real life died at 45 of complications from AIDS. Malek was fitted with prosthetic teeth and given more width to his nose to more resemble Mercury. Malek sings, to provide realism, but all the singing we hear in the movie is Mercury's voice, the credits simplay say "Queen" for each song.
Overall a brilliant biopic of a very complicated musician and singer who was determined to entertain and to live his life the way he wanted.
I also really enjoyed the various extras on the disc, particularly how they developed a new technique to simulate a crowd of hundreds of thousands at the live aid concert in 1985. Basically using individual images of real people, "extras" dressed in various garb and performing various motions, then via computer building all those individual moving images into blocks that when complete looked authentically like a large crowd.