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Anyone who gives this less than 5 and all you idiots blasting this film... really? I doubt if you have a brain cell between you. This is no big budget hollywood horror. If that's all you watch this isn't for you. But what it IS is a well written and well acted piece of art that has an above average director at its helm. To make an engaging film set in just one room is hard enough in itself but to draw good actors into the mix on a very very very small budget is even more of a talent. The subject matter is very fetishistic, playing with themes of bondage and S+M a bit too much for it not to obviously be the directors own fantasy come to life. That said it is intriguing and entertaining enough to keep you watching for 90mins to see the outcome. Just don't watch it with your mum. Passing note to all the 1,2,3,4 star idiots, you have no Buisiness reviewing movies at all. Keep your views to FB.

Badly cast. Badly acted. Badly directed but overall really badly written. How can such an amazing story be turned into the most boring event in TV history. I mean even when the Martians stride across landscapes in their huge machines it's like watching paint dry. The main characters will leave you decidedly uninterested and the directing just pitiful. This was much too big a project for this director to take on. There's hardly one interesting shot or direction in it. And as for the music OMG! With everyone declaring Jeff Waynes work a masterpiece you'd think they would have pulled out all the stops with the music score but no... it's some wish washy uninspiring drivel all the way through. Better to have used Wayne's music and licensed it. Characters that were massive in the musical and book just come and go like paper bags drifting across the camera. When the Brits take down a tripod it's like oh Mehhhhh, whatever. No drama. No building of excitement. Nothing. It just falls over in the background and the people are like 'yippee'. Just drivel. It only gets a few points for the scale of the production and some of the scenery. Oh and I know it's a period piece but you might as well be watching in black and white as there's hardly any colour in the entire piece. What a missed opportunity. There's more excitement and thrills in the first 5 mins of Jeff Wayne's musical than in the entire 3 part series. Do yourself a favour, go and get the live DVD of his show and watch that. You are wasting your time with this.

Brilliant performance by Blunt as a Freddie. Better than Bohemian Rhapsody. Shame then that they didn't put as much into the casting of the other band members. Roger Taylor being particularly bad, and that wig! Anyway, apart from Roger it's well directed and great insight from the interviewees. There could have been more supporting interviews but I guess they had to work with what they had. Very well constructed and the mix of reconstruction and real archive footage is perfect. Once again Blunt is magnificent. When you consider that by 1997 there was a 'virtual' cure for HIV/Aids it's even more of a tragedy that We lost Freddie. Given a few more years and the new breakthrough in drugs literally would reverse the onslaught of this terrible disease. Thank God that now it is not the death sentence that ravaged to 80s and 90s.