Martin Hughes

Rating: 7/10 (1 December 2006)

Its OK, its a good movie but Scorsese's days in film making as we knew him to be seem to be well over. What we feel now towards this director is a lot of nostalgia. I mean there was this whole thing going on in making this film about him having the same relationship with Di Caprio as the electricity he had with De Niro back in the seventies when making Taxi Driver which is all a load of you know what. I felt this way about De Niro as soon as he left the gangster genre as we knew it. I was not impressed with 'Bringing out the dead' or 'Gangs of New York' all his recent stuff like I was with Taxi driver, Meanstreets, Goodfellas and last but not least Casino which I believe was his last masterpiece, except Kundun which I must admit was really something. Look The Aviator is definitely worth a watch because Howard Hughs was definitely a character worth exploring.