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Bohemian Rhapsody is a 2018 biographical drama film about Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the British rock band Queen. It was directed by Bryan Singer from a screenplay by Anthony McCarten and produced by Graham King and Queen manager Jim Beach. It stars Rami Malek as Mercury, with Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joe Mazzello, Aidan Gillen, Tom Hollander, Allen Leech, and Mike Myers in supporting roles.

Plot
In 1970, Queen, a British rock band, sets out to achieve musical superstardom. At the same time, lead singer Freddie Mercury faces personal struggles pertaining to his ego and sexuality from the next few decades.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Having a movie about the evolution of the band, Queen is a pretty interesting idea in the first place, showing how that the Queen fans would've really wanted to see a movie based on the band what's is base on the band and its famous song, Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975.
 * 2) While it may not be 100% faithful to the Queen's evolutions, it stays true to the spirit to the evolution of how the band named Queen was started back in the mid-'70s.
 * 3) While the music lives do have some of its flaws, the music sequences are actually pretty amazing to look at.
 * 4) The acting, especially for Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton were decent.
 * 5) Bryan Singer still did a decent job directing the movie that he had amazingly directed the movies of Superman Returns, and the X-Men series.
 * 6) Some of the re-creation events during the evolution of the band Queen in the movie are actually true and decently done, but not to limited to:
 * 7) *Freddie Mercy credited his extra teeth for his voice.
 * 8) *The Queen bands, such Featherstone and others Queen members do exactly think that the song named "Bohemian Rhapsody" was too long to be released. (See BQ 2-D)
 * 9) *Freddie and Mary's relationship lasted throughout Freddie's life.
 * 10) Rami Malek's performance as Freddie Mercury is incredible despite his lip-syncing to the songs is bad (See BQ 5), and his portrayal of a real-life Freddie Mercury is also amazing as well.
 * 11) The 20th Century Fox's fanfare logo with Queen style at the beginning of the movie which was performed by the Queen, is actually amazing, which the Queen version of the logo was praised by the fans for the 20th Century Fox's fanfare was changed into the Queen's style instead of the original fanfare song.
 * 12) Decent cinematography that was made by Newton Thomas Sigel.
 * 13) Most of the characters, especially for the recreations of the real-life people of Queens like Freddie Mercury is still likable in this movie.
 * 14) The setting of recreation of the 1970's to the late 80's the United Kingdom, such as London, and the countryside, and the United States' scenes were very well done made.
 * 15) Decent story that it nearly follows the real-life events of Queen's evolution even though the criticism lives of the other band members (See BQ).
 * 16) Most of the Queen's music sequences were mostly used in the movie, best of all, the movie has the famous songs like Bohemian Rhapsody, and We Will Rock You were also used in the movie.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) At times, the portrayals of Mercury's sexuality and the lives of the other band members are fairly mediocre.
 * 2) * The movie decides to portray Mercury's sexuality and notorious party lifestyle as something to be embarrassed about for dramatic effect.
 * 3) The film has a whole bunch of historical inaccuracies. Here are some examples:
 * 4) * Mercury wasn't diagnosed with HIV before Live Aid. Live Aid also wasn't a reunion either, as Queen never split up.
 * 5) ** In reality, the time where Mercury was diagnosed with HIV is disputed but it's said he was diagnosed around 1986 to 1987.
 * 6) * The formation of Queen was not as simple as portrayed in the film. Mercury had known Tim Staffell from art college and had shown an interest in joining Smile before Staffell's departure. Mercury also shared a flat with Roger Taylor before joining the band and had run a stall at Kensington Market with him.
 * 7) * John Deacon was not the original bassist, but the fourth.
 * 8) * The character of Ray Foster is fictional and loosely based on EMI chief Roy Featherstone. While Featherstone and others did think that "Bohemian Rhapsody" was too long to be released as a single, Featherstone was a fan of the band. Also, Queen released numerous more albums and singles with EMI.
 * 9) * Paul Prenter did not become Mercury's PA until 1977.
 * 10) * Some songs are out of chronological order. For example, "We Will Rock You" was written in 1977, not 1980. Also, when Queen toured America for the first time in 1974, "Fat Bottomed Girls" hadn't been written until 1978, although the film shows them performing it in several U.S. cities.
 * 11) * Mercury did not meet Mary on the same night he joined the band
 * 12) * Jim Hutton was not a server at one of Mercury's parties, he was a hairdresser at a hotel and they met at a nightclub.
 * 13) Abysmal editing, causing the scenes to jump from one significant moment to another without any flow.
 * 14) * A particular example is in the scene where the Queen members meet John Reid, which's been widely considered to be the worst edited scene in the whole film. The scene lasts 104 seconds, but contains 60 cuts, making for an average shot lasting 1.8 seconds. There are even shots that serve no purpose whatsoever.
 * 15) * Video essayist Thomas Flight has even posted a video arguing why the film is a "masterclass in bad editing."
 * 16) The pacing is rather too frantic.
 * 17) While Rami Malek's performance as Freddie Mercury is still amazing for the time, his lip-syncing to the songs are awful. It doesn't help that the director tries to hide it by choosing different angles to hide his mouth.
 * 18) The movie focuses on Mercury so much that it doesn't take the time to develop the other members of Queen. They just feel like secondary characters.

Critical response
The movie received mixed reviews from critics but was well received from the fans of the band Queen and it's a song. On Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 61% rating, based on 398 reviews, and an average rating of 6.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Bohemian Rhapsody hits a handful of high notes, but as an in-depth look at a beloved band, it offers more of a medley than a true greatest hits collection.", on the same site, it also had an 85% audience score rating on the same site. Metacritic gave a film a 49/100 "Mixed or average" reviews" and a 7.7/10 user score rating on the same site. On IMDb, it had an 8/10 rating.

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