Beautifully Filmed and Realistic,

Rating: 9/10 (25 May 2014)

The Aviator is a fantastic movie with a very well developed plot and an outstanding cast. There was clearly an awful lot of money put in to making this movie and it really shows. It is beautifully filmed, you can tell that Martin Scorsese was really intrigued by the life of Howard Hughes and went through so much effort to make this biography a realistic and authentic portrayal of the man's life.
The film does tend to drag. Running at almost three hours, there are a lot of details that I found unnecessary and made the movie somewhat monotonous for me, it lingers on many scenes that are far too dialogue heavy.
Leonardo DiCaprio is not someone who would strike me as perfect casting for Hughes, he seems like a person that should be played by a more flamboyant actor. However, he succeeded beyond my expectations, he was extremely dedicated to the part and did a great job going from a snobby billionaire to an absolute psychopath later on in the movie. Cate Blanchett also delivered an outstanding performance as Katharine Hepburn. She is one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood at the moment and definitely deserved her Academy Award for this film, especially if you read in to the trivia for the amount of preparation she went through.
Wildly entertaining, energetic and well acted, The Aviator is an outstanding film that I would recommend to all moviegoers.
Biopic that follows the early years of fussy film director and aviator Howard Hughes, a man who always dreamed about the future.
Best Performance: Leonardo DiCaprio