Rami Malek

Gwilym Lee

Ben Hardy

Joseph Mazzello

Lucy Boynton

Aidan Gillen

Allen Leech

Tom Hollander

Mike Myers

Aaron McCusker

Meneka Das

Ace Bhatti

Priya Blackburn

Max Bennett

Dermot Murphy

Dickie Beau

Jack Roth

Neil Fox-Roberts

Jess Radomska

Michelle Duncan

Ross Green

Bruce Mackinnon

Joshua Higgott

Pat Lally

William Owen

Philip Andrew

Tim Plester

Felipe Bejarano

Kieran Hardcastle

Martin Oelbermann

Ian Gabriel Dumdum

Matt Greenwood

Royce Cronin

James MacLaren

Andrew Bowerman

Drew P.

Haf Gibson

Honor Hellon

Rosy Benjamin

Leila Crerar

Katherine Newman

Adam Rauf

Peter Howe

John Ottman

James Wallace

Matthew Houston

Scott Morrison Watson

Devlin Lloyd

Stefan Kopiecki

Garry Summers

Matthew Fredricks

Ian Jareth Williamson

Adam Lazarus

Johanna Thea

Adam Lambert

Andreea Helen David

Jason Lines

Adam James Johnston

Freddie Mercury

Brian May

Roger Taylor

John Deacon

Donald Sabourin

Anthony McCarten

Elliot Graham

Jim Beach

Bryan Singer

Graham King

Newton Thomas Sigel

Denis O'Sullivan

Robert De Niro

Jane Rosenthal

Julian Day

Arnon Milchan

Hannah Moseley

David Hindle

Alice Sutton

Aaron Haye

Peter Oberth

Richard Hewitt

Becky Bentham

Peter Morgan

Anna Lynch-Robinson

Jack Ravenscroft

Susie Figgis

Claire Frayn

Dexter Fletcher

Annabelle Hood

Sian Evans

Becky Roberts

Jenny Basen

Tim Field

Alistair Hawkins

John Warhurst

Paul Norris

Paul Massey

Carl Grinter

Alastair Sirkett

Charlotte Hutchings

Olly Williams

Andy Kennedy

Douglas Ingram

Rachel Aulton

Peter Robertson

Alice Stevens

Claire Shakespeare

Marco Anton Restivo

Seth Crosby

Gary Hutchings

Jamie Bruce

Nanu Segal

Michael Green

Alex Bailey

Kirsty Kinnear

Terry Woods

Ian Coffey

Valentina Romano

Sean Rogers

Ryan Taggart

Rina Yang

Hamish Doyne-Ditmas

Adam Sculthorp

Jo Hawthorne

Dani Rose

Tom Campbell

Lee Walters

Francesco Ferrari

Callum Watt

Renata Gilbert

Love Larson

Sascha Dhillon

Iona Westlake

Paige Andrews

Emma Stokes

Gareth Parry

Maria Fernanda Llamosa

Josephina van Leeuwen

Nell Lloyd-Malcolm

Julio Parodi

Kate Laver

Hayleigh Roberts

Danielle Rogers

Rowena Ladbury

Wesley Vet

Simona De Angelis

Eva von Bahr

Hugh O'Shea

Neha Singh

Jason McDonald

Joseph Farrant

Jan Sewell

Greg Fisher

Jon Baker

Sam Dormer

Catherine Francis

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Bohemian Rhapsody

20th Century Fox

Regency Enterprises

GK Films

TSG Entertainment

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

london, england

aids

musician

1970s

biography

based on true story

singer

male homosexuality

fame

rock band

lgbt

1980s

gay theme

queen (band)

Gimly

If _Bohemian Rhapsody_ is so great, why was the best part of it Tom Hollander saying a single word? Don't get me wrong, Rami Malek deserves props for the role, that much is true (less perhaps than he's been getting, but still, props). But beyond that, _Bohemian Rhapsody_ is bland, choppy, arguably even offensive. There **might** be some value in one of those sing-along type deals if you can get enough Queen fans together for one, but I'll never know, because I have no interest in re-watching this.

_Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._

If _Bohemian Rhapsody_ is so great, why was the best part of it Tom Hollander saying a single word? Don't get me wrong, Rami Malek deserves props for the role, that much is true (less perhaps than he's been getting, but still, props). But beyond that, _Bohemian Rhapsody_ is bland, choppy, arguably even offensive. There **might** be some value in one of those sing-along type deals if you can get enough Queen fans together for one, but I'll never know, because I have no interest in re-watching this.

Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.

Richard Kirk

Bohemian Rhapsody is not a biography of Freddie Mercury, nor a biopic of Queen. It's a story based on a selection of key events occurring between the formation of the band and their appearance at Live Aid.
As a Queen fan I found this film utterly engrossing and enjoyable. The acting brilliantly invokes the characters in the band and the music provides a thumping rhythm to carry the story along.
Queen aficionados may be affronted by the out of sequence music performances and the highly selective approach to the story telling but if you can see past that, you'll enjoy a storming film with a spine-tingling conclusion as the Live Aid performance is brilliantly recreated.

Martha

Rami was beyond superb at bringing the light that was Freddie to life again. I almost couldn't tell the difference. It was so well done. Perfection. I wish all real life bio-pics could be as heartwarming, heartbreaking, and fun as this. We miss and love you Freddie.

I was scared to see this, mainly because most Biopics paint people in an absolutely horrible light and Queen was one of my favorite bands and Freddie one of my favorite rock vocalists. I was ready to rant and rave if it turned out to be a smear campaign of one of my rock heroes.

Fortunately it wasn't, it was actually a fair treatment of all of them. And, in fact, it was really generous towards May, but then he wasn't the focus of the film.

And the cast actually looked like Queen. So that is a plus. Everyone did a great job and props have to go out to Rami Malek, he would have been great if they gave him actual dialogue.

So why the single star? Honestly, it's because of the trailer. As in, if you saw the trailer you pretty much have already seen the movie. Not just the highlights, but the entire movie.

Queen was an epic band. Bohemian Rhapsody was an epic song. But Bohemian Rhapsody the movie has absolutely no meat on it.

You walk in with high hopes, and the cast is great, but the movie as a whole is a let down. It ends at Live Aid (as it probably should) but even then it doesn't seem anywhere near as epic a finale as it should have been for such a memorable and lauded performance.

Ultimately, there should have been more to it.

Filipe Manuel Neto

**A good film about one of the great rock bands of the 20th century.**

This is one of those films that was made with the fans of a personality in mind, more than the rest of the public. This, however, is not exactly a problem in my eyes, it is rather a characteristic of this film, common to other biographical films that are centered on very popular figures such as sportsmen, musicians or others.

Directed by Bryan Singer, the film covers the journey of the notable rock band “Queen” and its lead singer, Freddie Mercury, who immortalized himself with memorable performances and a sense of stage and spectacle that only big stars possess. Mercury was also notable for being one of the first major superstars to openly embrace his homosexuality and die of AIDS. As a biography, it is a very acceptable film and, as far as I was able to understand, it respects the essential aspects of the lives and artistic path of those concerned. Of course, being a film about a rock band, we cannot ignore the soundtrack, where we have the band's most famous and recognizable songs, and we can see a reenactment of the famous live performance they did at “Live Aid” in 1985, a one of the most acclaimed live musical performances ever in rock history.

Obviously, the film was fated to financial success and, without any major surprises, and after weeks of advertising investment, it found great support from the public and became one of the biggest box office successes of that year. Critics also had no major objections and the film arrived at the Oscars as one of the favorites: out of a total of five nominations, it won four statuettes (Best Actor, Best Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing) losing only for Best Film.

In fact, in addition to the good songs and good script, the film offers us one of the best performances by Rami Malek, an actor who couldn't be better suited for the role of Freddie Mercury. In addition to all the physical similarities that he took advantage of to embody the character, he managed to interpret him in a dignified and respectful way, without transforming “his” Freddie into a kind of cheap imitation of the real person. However, as I watched the film, I couldn't help but feel that Malek was the only one in the scene who deserved the spotlight, and that the film lacked an equally good supporting cast that would give some charisma to the remaining band members, transformed into in extras in a story where only Mercury was taken into consideration.

CinemaSerf

There are plenty of opinions as to how authentic this is, as a retrospective on the life of Freddie Mercury; but there can be no doubting that the pairing of Rami Malek and Queen's music makes this a captivating couple of hours of cinema. We are taken on the compelling and enthralling roller-coaster that was his life and the excesses of his lifestyle and behaviour are comprehensively conveyed without being at all graphic, or even particularly seedy. Malek is simply magnificent. Tom Hollander is also outstanding too. I bet it did wonders for sales of Queen music too - they created one hell of a repertoire.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" wins Best Sound Editing

"Bohemian Rhapsody" wins Best Film Editing

Rami Malek wins Best Actor | 91st Oscars (2019)

Bohemian Rhapsody | Live Aid Side by Side: "We Will Rock You"  | 20th Century FOX

Bohemian Rhapsody( 2018)

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Written by Gimly on Sun Jan 20 2019

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