Very good, but spotty flow

Rating: 7/10 (18 January 2019)

If you like Queen, and with their iconic rock anthems, just about everyone does, you'll like the movie. The acting is top-notch, and Malek nails the conflicted Freddy.
That said, I personally would've like a bit more about the early days of the band. The movie synopsizes those years and events in favor of Freddy's admittedly more interesting story, but the result is that the rest of the band members seem relatively two-dimensional.
I suppose my real complaint is that while this is indeed really a biopic of Freddy Mercury, it's just a little bit too much so. It's dead-on in portraying his conflicts with his gay lifestyle and the lifestyle itself, but overboard with it. There's way more than is required to make the point.
It's a very good movie but a slightly shorter cut would make it even better. Just an opinion. You feel good at the end, regardless of Freddy's doomed circumstances, a tricky bit, so that's a plus.
Worth watching.