If this is the best that the Oscars can come up with...

Rating: 3/10 (8 March 2005)

If this is the best that the Oscars can come up with then they really should be trying harder...
On the whole a quite boring film, and Leonardo DiCaprio is again miscast. You just cannot take him seriously, are there no other actors out there!!
The film was also lacking in not giving more background to the origin of the Hughes family wealth, okay we know it came from tool bits, but more here would really have been interesting.
In the same way that a film with 'Tom Cruise' in nowadays is going to be an overblown bloated fish.. so this epic of a film felt.. - oh dear, just had a recall of the dreadful 'Gangs of New York', another Leonardo classic!
Back again to Leonardo I'm afraid, maybe with someone a little more commanding in the role it would have given it a bit of bite, I doubt it but you never know.
Don't waste your hard earned cash on this, watch 'The Bourne Identity' or 'Leon' again and feel good!