Just Grand!

Rating: Null/10 (11 February 2005)

This is movie-making the old-fashioned way. Characters are really fleshed out and every moment is eventful and meaningful. I don't know where a fellow IMDb commentator is coming from when he describes the movie as boring (too long) and Howard Hughes as psychopathic. That is just rubbish! The movie is only boring for people with no imagination and high attention deficit. If Hughes was psychopathic so also were many of the great figures in history. They paid for their greatness with their sufferings and eventual self destruction. We do not understand the source of genius, so we conveniently attribute it to being driven by "demons" or "psychopathy". I recommend that we take a different approach. Simply see the movie and marvel at some piece of wonderful acting and story-telling that is involving and just pure delight. At the same time, get to know a great American, Howard Hughes.