This film was too PG and Straight washing, Freddie was a Rock Star, it should have been a Sex Drugs n Rock'n'roll film!

Rating: 5/10 (9 November 2018)

Finally watched it.. a bit dissapointed
This film was too PG and Straight washing, Freddie was a Rock Star, it should have been a Sex Drugs n Rock'n'roll film!
It's not a bad film per say but very weak in my opinion.
Visually the film was well made, loved the costumes. Some scenes very fun and well filmed.
What dissapointed me is that it seemed to lack depth and instead of focusing on Freddie's world and persona it was just compliation of cheesy scenes and basically Queen karaoke scenes by Rami Malek.
I think it should have been focused more deeply on Freddies struggles in life, sexuality, family, musical struggles and his famous crazy parties! Nothing was really shown and touched upon, barely scratched the surface.
Also Freddie was quite a controversial person and a rebel, but this film seems to be the kinda film that tries to fit in to public norms.
The film portrayed music business to be easy n jolly, as if the band didn't have any struggles at all- Hey look at me I want to sing, boom I'm a star! Of course Freddie and the band were talanted, but it ain't that easy to get big in the music industry, even if you are super talented and in reality their success didn't happen over night!
Rami Malek...well he did better than I thought, but still I don't think that was a good choice.He's a good actor, but I just didn't find him believable as Freddie. I would have preferred Sacha Baron Cohen, but he was smart enough to leave this film, after he found out film is not gonna be focused in depth on Freddie.
Overall the film to me seemed a fluffer family film for the mainstream audience that are happy to hear some jolly Queen songs and bathe in nostalgia. Feels like an easy money kind of film. To me it didn't feel like a big screen film, more something that could be shown on TV.
Igive it 5/10, mainly for the visuals, but overall dissapointed.