I didn't like it so much, here's why...

Rating: 4/10 (19 January 2019)

I'm a huge Queen music fan, though I was never interested in their lives so much. Still, I was looking forward to this. Unfortunately, it was a letdown.
Firstly, it tells us nothing about the characters. It doesn't help that they skip one whole year after the characters meet... what happened in that time??
We never learn anything about the band or Mary as people. The film makes the mistake of tell, don't show (as opposed to "show, don't tell").
They mention that Brian May is an astrophysicist... twice. But we learn nothing about the man. Roger Taylor's a lady's man apparently (we're told three times). Who was Mary before she met Freddie? We know nothing.
Of course, you could argue that it's supposed to be Freddie's show. Okay, but I just couldn't see Rami as Freddie... it was like a celebrity impersonation... very superficial. Acting with his eyes most of the time.
Also, silly cameos like Mike Myers saying something about kids in cars banging their heads to the song (yeah, I get it!) just took me out of the picture.
I also didn't like how they gave Freddie AIDS before Live Aid when pretty much everyone knows it was much later.
Overall it came off like a made-for-TV biopic. Very by-the-numbers and not telling us anything we didn't already know.