BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY: WE WILL ROCK YOU! ..... to sleep.
Other than Rami Malek’s flawless portrayal of Freddie and a well timed chicken I don’t have a lot of positive things to say about Bohemian Rhaspody. Clunky dialogue and a heavy handed message made most scenes predictable and contrived, and without Tom Hollander thankfully bringing some sort of gravity to this film I would have found it boring.
Visually I’d say it was quite entertaining but Queen’s mercifully gargantuan music catalogue keeps things moving along nicely until the final Live Aid sequence. Again Rami was very watchable as Freddie but it went on far too long and if I wanted to watch their final Wembley concert I’d watch the real one and not a strange shot-for-half-arsed-shot reshoot.
All in all I’d give this film 5.8 out of 10 and it sort of makes me dread the forthcoming release of Rocketman which I feel will be in a very similar vain.
I've been Christopher Whitmore, thanks for reading.
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