Pretty to look at, but oh so boring.

Rating: 3/10 (1 July 2012)

The only thing that kept me interested was watching the scenery, hairstyles and clothing in the era. It was also interesting to see the coconut grove as I've watched a documentary before about the fire there.
But besides that, this movie feels very empty. Howard Hughes, who I never read about before, comes off as a maniac. The movie focuses so much on the OCD that it forgets to give him a defining character. Despite needing millions of dollars for projects, money just seems to magically appear if he wants to, never do we see how he actually gets the money.
All the characters felt empty as well. One scene that really bugged me is when Katherine returns home and tells him she has fallen in love with someone else. This development is so fast it feels forced. One scene they are going to be married, the next scene they have an argument, the next scene she talks briefly to another man and the next scene she comes home saying she is in love and is going to move. And this is in a span of five minutes! It makes it seem that one argument is enough to doom the relationship, which makes the character Katherine appear immature. Besides that, I couldn't really connect with any of the characters. They felt so devoid of emotion that I barely kept track of who was who.
At the two hour mark, I had to stop the movie and do something else, because it was just so boring. Unfortunately the last part of the movie didn't have much to offer so I left the movie running while doing something else, briefly watching it until the end.