An insult to Queen

Rating: 4/10 (19 November 2019)

It seems like if the people who spammed this page with 10's gave it a 10 because they enjoyed the music. I enjoyed the music also, but the end result was a poorly made film.
Before I get into the negatives, I want to talk about the positives of the film. Rami Malek's performance as Freddie Mercury was superb, and I was not disappointed about him winning best actor. The music was great, but that's because it's all by Queen.
That's pretty much it for the positives. Everything else in this film wasn't that great. Throughout the film, the editing choices were horrible, Every scene has so many cuts. There's some meme videos about Bohemian Rhapsody's editing on YouTube that I suggest you check out to see what I mean. A lot of Bohemian Rhapsody's editing was unnecessary, and I am still confused as to why the academy chose this film for best editing, when I believe it shouldn't even have been nominated at all.
There are also so many inconsistencies in this film with what actually happened in the life of Queen. While a fantasy biopic may not be a negative in some cases, such as the Elton John biopic "Rocketman", a lot of parts in the story just didn't feel real. It just seems too convenient at many times.
The movie also has a PG-13 rating, which was kind of frustrating since the true story of Freddie Mercury was not told. The film "Rocketman" is very similar to this film, except Rocketman is R-rated since it recognizes that Elton John's life is indeed R-rated. So is Freddie Mercury's rating, but instead a lot of the movie was just trying to tell the story while pandering to a PG-13 rating.
Overall, this film was very disappointing. It is not the worst movie ever made, but it is overrated and not good either. It just felt like an insult to the music Freddie Mercury and Queen made. The film was slightly entertaining, but I'm most likely not going to watch it ever again.