So So

Rating: 4/10 (29 June 2005)

This movie had great potential. The acting was done well enough to convince me. I don't think they missed Howard Hughes' personality by much. What let me down was the reliance on "Special effects" to carry so much of the films load. I was under-whelmed by the special effects. On a 27 inch TV screen, they will probably be very convincing, but on the big screen, they were a distraction rather than an enhancement. Like so many modern movies, I think they cut short on story line and put too much focus (no pun intended) on special effects. Katherine Hepburn was easily as irritating as the real Katherine Hepburn, but there was too much of Howard's love life and not enough of his technical achievements. Unless I missed it, there was no mention of him designing what has become the modern hospital bed during his ordeal in the hospital. He was definitely a disturbed individual, but he was also an inventive genius. A more vigorous presentation of the battle between genius and disturbed mind, would have made the film more interesting for me.