Terrific performances

Rating: 9/10 (11 November 2015)

A brilliant film which brings out amazing performances from Leo Di Caprio,Cate Blanchette and Alan Alda. I have seen it three times and it gets better every time. Scorcese is not my favourite director but he brings home the bacon in this film. How Di Caprio did not get an academy award is beyond me - I believe he should have won at least 3 by now. I think he must have rubbed someone up the wrong way in Hollywood and they are denying him because of some imagined slight. The Aviator is a long film but never seems to be so as the story absorbs the viewer totally. I would recommend it to anyone. It is beautiful to look at and tells Howard Hughes' story really well