Cheesy, formulaic, and cliched. The music is good, but that's not really credited to the movie

Rating: 4/10 (28 January 2019)

I can 100% confirm that this movie is completely reliant on the audience to enjoy the music. There are elements to the film's sequence of events that you normally find in a satire of rags to riches band movies, but not added as a joke. It's one of the most disappointing movies I've seen all year. The biggest issue with the film is that it comes off as incredibly disingenuous. An extremely paint by numbers story that you've definitely seen already if you've seen any musical biopic ever made. I feel so sorry for Rami Malek lending his fantastic acting skills to this underwhelming film. All I could think when watching this movie is "How the hell are people supposed to get anything out of this film if they aren't fans of Queen?" Really disappointing.