What a Bore!!!

Rating: 2/10 (20 July 2005)

I found it extremely difficult to sit through this "Hollywood Blockbuster". THere just wasn't anything there to keep me entertained.
Leo's portrayal of Howard Hues the germophobic, womanizing, obsessive compulsive, maniac, was just as any of his movies... Long, boring, overly dramatic, and played up with a really funny voice. During one part of the movie, an airplane he is flying takes a horrible crash in the middle of a large populated area. I've never felt happier to see a character dying in a film. And yet... he lives! Kate Beckinsale, a woman whom I admire in Hollywood, had the most annoying and pointless part in the film. She seems to be the "fallback" girl for Hues, who he wants to marry, just because, brings him down into nothingness, and then drags him back up because she feels sorry for him. She sort of has a "woman of the evening" feeling about her.
You are also not spared in this movie, pointless nudity, which is to say that we see quite a bit of a naked Leo, who is afraid of the germs on his clothes 3/4 of the way into the film. It was pointless! All in all, it was difficult to stay in the room while this movie was playing. It's ending didn't play out, and I just have the feeling that I wasted 2 and a half hours of my life.