Over-over rated waste of time

Rating: 3/10 (12 February 2007)

This is supposedly about the life of Howard Hughes, a tall thin man who I met a couple of times. There have been better movies made about his life than this. This one is not very accurate and the casting is bad.
Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't resemble Howard Hughes in the least and never really captures his character. Even worse is Cate Blanchett playing the part of Katherine Hepburn. Hepburn was a rail thin beauty with a special marvelous voice and Blanchett is just the opposite, unattractive, average build, and with nothing special about her. The way she played Hepburn was a travesty, particularly to Hepburn fans. But then the relationship between Hughes and Hepburn was fictional and never really happened as shown in the movies.
The movie focuses on Hughes' foibles but for the most part they are overemphasized or taken out of context or even contrived. Hughes' life was a long and complex story which unfortunately is too abbreviated in the movie, such as omitting his marriage to Jean Peters