![]() ![]() It introduces Freddie (Rami Malek) when he is still named Farrokh Bulsara. The production was so troubled that the credited director, Bryan Singer, was replaced by Dexter Fletcher, so the finished film is a lot more coherent than it might have been. But thanks to its sympathetic, charismatic leading man and some of the 20th Century’s most invigorating pop music, the film just about deserves the review that was given to the group’s most memorable single, and which is quoted halfway through: it’s “perfectly adequate”. Scripted by Anthony McCarten (Darkest Hour, The Theory of Everything, and other such efficient but superficial non-fiction dramas), Bohemian Rhapsody sticks to a structure that might have seemed clichéd during Queen’s heyday, and which has been unforgivable since it was parodied in Walk Hard. Film review: Robert Pattinson stars in High Life In other words, some musicians get together they record their greatest hits while wearing a succession of less-than-convincing shaggy wigs and their fortunes rise, fall and then rise again. It looks like a daytime soap opera and it runs through the same chord progression as every previous rock biopic. Mercury’s long-awaited biopic may be named after Queen’s superlatively innovative anthem, but it has barely a fraction of that song’s arrogant grandeur or adventurous spirit. Clearly, no one said the same thing to the people who made the film. “We need to get experimental,” says Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, as Queen are recording their debut album. ![]()
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