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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
A film with two leading actors
Objectively the film was pretty good. Good story telling (well, it's almost a documentary), good visuals. But nothing super outstanding.
Until you put in the lead actor - the music of Queen. Queen's music is already awesome but in the context of this film it takes on a persona of its own and transforms the movie from pretty good to greatness.
Then you add in the second lead actor - Rami Malek. The descriptions you've read are wrong - he doesn't "play" Freddie Mercury - he IS Freddy Mercury. I'm someone who's watched Freddie on TV - unless the camera moves in for a facial close-up Malek is indistinguishable from Freddy Mercury. It's not acting, he's pretty much a doppleganger. Even if you don't care much for the movie, Queen's music (how dare you!) or any other thing, just watch to see a pinnacle of acting
Overlord (2018)
Shallow, cheap filmmaking meets Wolvenstein
Extremely shallow in every way. Logic of the story fails in the very basics, tries to soup it up with very loud noises, explosions, shaky cam, close up shots on shocked faces, goes into horror mode and opts to scare you with cheap tricks. You also get all the politically correct narrative: All Germans are Nazis, all of them are totally evil and should be shot on sight, evil white men do evil things and the pure, baby faced black guy does all the right things oh and the girl kicks ass. Really? This is the best you came up with in 2018? Sorry I don't have any tolerance for film scripts that choose to pick parts off a scenario lego set and call it art.
The supporting cast do as good a job as they can given the abysmal script but the main character fails and not just because of the bad script.
Visually it's not entertaining, even on the wide screen of a movie theater i felt like i was watching a cheap computer game animation on my computer screen. Fitting I guess as the story is pretty much Wolvenstein 3D of ancient days. Except the hero mainly runs away instead of gunning everything down.