A Metropolitan Review Film Chronicle

After an eight-year hiatus from feature films, actor and comedian Mike Myers shocked audiences around the world with a surprise return in 2018’s Bohemian Rhapsody, playing a fictional record executive who rejects the titular song for its length and perceived radicalism. Myers’ appearance remains one of the more bizarre facts of his late career, given that his character is wholly made-up and the struggles presented on-screen for Queen are entirely fake, which does raise the question of whether he simply wandered onto set and started messing around. In Michael, the latest film from Training Day director Antoine Fuqua, Myers once again plays a record executive, this time the very real Walter Yetnikoff, who ran CBS Records from 1975 to 1990. That Myers is the best thing in both films tells you everything you need to know.