Embarrassingly inaccurate, lacks soul

Rating: 4/10 (12 July 2019)

Let me state: Rami Malek does a fine job as Freddie Mercury from a character perspective. But the films direction in having Rami LIP SYNC his way through the film instead of actually having to attempt his sound like Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash or Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles is rather frustrating. The editing is also really awful. Abrupt cuts, an honestly hokey Live Aid CGI'd performance. It's just makes seem like a really high budget VH1 movie. Worst of all, it makes up a narrative that Mercury had done the live aid concert because he had contracted HIV. WHICH IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. I actually changed my rating to a 4/10 while this review because besides Malek (not an Oscar winning performance IMO) the acting is rather average. Don't bother.