A stand out experience

Rating: 9/10 (25 October 2018)

It has been a long time since I was utterly absorbed in a film.........those 3 or 4 occasions in your life when you come away from the cinema flooded with emotions and thoughts and a euphoria. This was one of those moments. Freddie has to be one of the most testing roles for an actor to play, complex, iconic, loved. Rami did a superb job when he could have so easily made a right bollocks of it. The 'supporting' cast were excellent too. All too often with period pieces you get the impression that they are shoving set decoration at you to try and make you believe you are in the 60's or 70's or whenever. This film had a much subtler approach, but you still came away with a real feel for the time. Music - fantastic as you would expect......it's Queen after all - however I loved how they crafted the performances so they didn't sound like karaoke night at the local pub! My one real issue was with the unrealistic filmed crowd shots at Wembley - the front row close-ups of the audience and the press photographer box just sucked.......it was almost as if they had grabbed a few people from the production crew and shoved them in while they were standing idle, to avoid casting realistic concert goers. But that was a minor gripe in what was a wonderfully moving and evocative film the memory of which I will treasure for may years.