Very Exciting!

Rating: 8/10 (24 January 2005)

This is an extremely watchable movie. A very exciting movie. What this movie is not, is a biography. Myabe it's Mr. Scorsese' opinion of Hughes but I think other biographies and historical documents would find it wanting on truth. But I guess it's his truth.
There's a reasonable amount of action along with the drama, there's even some funny dialog. I was not prepared to be impressed with someone as young as Mr. DiCaprio doing a person from history like Howard Hughes. Hughes is a larger than life character, but the youth of DiCaprio started to disappear as the Hughes character began his decline into madness. Mr. DiCaprio even atarts to look like a young Howard Hughes.
Ms. Blanchett is the best part of this movie though. She captures Katherine Hepburn precisely. I have seen most of the late Ms.Hepburn's movies and interviews and Ms. Blanchett's portrayal deserves an Oscar. If her performance were not as good as it is, she would deserve one for such a great effort playing someone as equally larger than life like Ms. Katherine Hepburn.