Potentially good movie badly executed

Rating: 1/10 (9 April 2006)

My wife and I looked forward to watching this and we were both disappointed, it was a struggle to hang on to the end. Some outstanding acting by the leads wasn't enough to rescue this movie from a very average screenplay in our opinion. The hype surrounding this movie earned it a awful vote from us. Its a shame, Howard Hughes story deserved much better treatment than this. Perhaps the great failing of the screenplay was its attempt to deliver the whole story without ever getting each of the sub-plots off the ground (excuse the pun). It over-does the phobia stuff, under-does the aviation history and struggles to deliver the love interest in context.