Scorsese's worst

Rating: 5/10 (17 April 2005)

For some reason Scorsese is considered a great director. I think he's just a working man, not an artist. His interest for perverse brutal violence is however in a sick way shared by many of us. But does those films tell us anything about "life"? Hardly.
"The Aviator" is about Howard Hughes, as everybody know, and especially his passion for making airplanes. It's mostly like average TV, with bad make-up, bad reconstruction of the 20s, 40s and so on and, it has to be told, rather bad acting. DiCaprio is overplaying and so is Blanchett, Alda and the rest. Theatrical to say the least.
And the movie is much to long. The second half is better and you find some tension in the story about the senate hearings but still, Scorsese ought to be taken down from the pedestal.