Drama 170 min — Directed by Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda
A biopic of a young Howard Hughes directing the movie Hell’s Angels, wanting perfection at any cost. Also about his struggle to break PanAm’s monopoly on flying passengers in the fourties, but most of all his obsession with flying and the onset of his cleanliness phobia.

After all the commotion about this film, I sat down looking forward to it with anticipation and I have to admit it, some dread. I like Leonardo - he’s done some nice roles before, so I wasn’t concerned by that, but movies that are nominated for Oscars generally suck ass. I was concerned that it would center in on Howard Hughest lunacy too much, and it was a relief when it didn’t. Not much anyway.
You get the feeling it was cut down in running-length, despite being almost 3 hours long, and it really suffers from that. It sure didn’t feel like it was that long. The jumps in the storyline feels artificial and somewhat confusing at times, and we don’t get to know Mr Hughes at all, nor the people around him. It takes too much for granted, by which I mean that folks that experienced the fourties and fifties know much about the background with all the passing stars and such, which we who didn’t experience it just don’t. It takes it for granted that we do know about the stars of the time, but we really only know them from the movies they made, if even that.
Leo is great as Howard, but not anything extraordinary. Cate as Hepburn is allright, but I fail to see why people think she did an excellent job portraying her. Kate is just stunningly beautiful in her short and few scenes.
All in all, I liked it very much, but it’s not the master-piece I was expecting from Scorsese. Gangs of New York was much better.

Rating: 7 / 10