Missed the mark by a mile

Rating: 5/10 (14 January 2019)

This isn't a 10 Star masterpiece, it's not even an 8 Star gem. Which is a shame because any movie about the life of Freddie Mercury, one of the greatest rock performers ever to strut the stage should have been so much more.
I don't want to hear Bohemian Rhapsody, twice. I've got it on iTunes. I don't want to watch the Live Aid performance, it's there on YouTube. I wanted to find out what Freddie was really like, what made him tick, and I didn't get it. I got a fairly one dimensional perspective of a rock star with his life chronologically altered to suit the movie. Queen never split up. FM's aids diagnosis came nearly 2 years after Live Aid. When you've got a subject as talented and captivating as Freddie Mercury, there's no need to change the truth.