Just another Hollywood movie...

Rating: 4/10 (10 August 2005)

Can't see why there's been such a fuss about this movie. Considering Scorsese directed such masterpieces as Taxi Driver, it is a real disappointment. I mean, you just have to have a look at the Wikipedia article to see what an exceptional character Hughes was, and Di Caprio certainly wasn't the guy to play the part. His acting is not particularly bad, it is just awfully boringly obvious. No depth, no complexity, no ambiguity. He looks angry when he has to be angry, sound megalomaniac when he has to be megalomaniac... nothing more. Besides, Hughes was certainly a ladies'man, but one can't say that the affairs with Kate Hepburn or Ava Gardner are really interesting (and, most of all, DiCaprio never seems really interested in any of them).
Admittedly, a biopic is a difficult exercise, and few of them are what you may call masterpieces. Certainly, this one won't change my opinion of the genre.