gorgeous technically superior

Rating: 6/10 (24 May 2015)

Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) uses his Texas oil money to satisfy his obsession of making a realistic air war movie "Hell's Angels". He becomes romantically involved with actress Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett). He has obsessive-compulsive disorder and is severely afraid of disease stemming from his mother. He brings his obsession to aviation and build an airline battling Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin). His romance with Hepburn comes to end and he starts a new one with Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsale).
Martin Scorsese has given a technically superior movie. It is gorgeous like our imagination of what old Hollywood must have been. Hepburn is doing an impression. DiCaprio is a star. While the movie do a great recreation, it keeps its distance. It needs a gritty, non-pretty sense to dig into Hughes' dark obsessive side. This man is disturbed and the movie should be visually disturbing at certain times to bring that out.