Fantastic!

Rating: 8/10 (7 July 2005)

I don't know if this is a spoiler or not so I thought I better be safe.
This movie did have some drawbacks but this is only to be expected with the subject matter. Howard Hughes was larger than life - a long, action-packed life it was! It would be impossible to put all the information into a film twice this length so many things were skipped making the movie a little hard to follow if you didn't already know the plot.
However, the impressions - the feelings - of the people involved (especially HH himself) were incredible!! So realistic! Having dealt with Bipolar Disorder (which HH had) I can only say that if you want to know what it's like, there isn't a better example. The panic attacks, the loss of self, the confusion with the world around you, the awareness of insanity.
What heights HH reached and what greater heights he could have reached with modern medicine! A true tragedy.