What are the stakes?

Rating: 6/10 (27 October 2018)

Don't get me wrong, the music is excellent. The actors do a magnificent job, but it is never quite clear what the stakes are, why this movie needed to be made?
It really seems to me like they glossed over most of the really bad stuff, and instead of getting into the nitty gritty in the interpersonal relationships within the band and the people surrounding it. It just feels like business as usual, no challenge is appearing as one. and every time the very clunky dialogue comes to a halt, its either a montage or a cut-away to music.
I can't help but feel like a real biopic, with no band-members listed as producers would just have had more edge, would have explored the person Freddie Mercury was, and what he became, and in the process found a place for itself.
This movie just does not have that, the actors do their best, but the script and story just isn't there, every conflict is solved quickly or off screen, and then its business as usual.
It just feels like the musical back-catalogue of Queen becomes a crutch for pushing the movie forward, the non-Freddie bandmembers just appear flat.