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    Review: Rami Malek makes a fab Freddie Mercury, but 'Bohemian Rhapsody' will not rock you

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Nov 01, 2018 5 minutes

    "Formulas work. We like formulas."

    It takes just two sentences for "Bohemian Rhapsody" to own itself - no, not Queen's immortal chart topper, but rather this sprawling, jumbled and disappointingly airbrushed new movie about the legendary rock band and especially its incandescent frontman, Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek). It's Freddie who, in 1975, decides that Queen will defy formula and craft a new musical masterpiece that fuses ballad, opera and rock inspirations into an ear-tickling, genre-melding opus for the ages.

    But the finished work predictably meets resistance from an EMI Records executive named Ray Foster, who's convinced that no radio station will play a single that runs six minutes long. (Foster, a fictionalized character, is played by a nearly unrecognizable Mike Myers, in a "Wayne's World" tie-in that almost but

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