The Aviator

Rating: 8/10 (7 February 2005)

The Aviator, is based on the true life story of Howard Hughes. Howard Hughes, was very eccentric and he directed such films as Hell's Angels and Scarface. Howard, had a lot of money so he founded his own aircraft company where he would design and build aircrafts. He even broke a couple of speed records with some of his aircrafts. Howard, also dated a lot of women including actress Katharine Hepburn, and later in his life he lived mostly in a hotel room running his business from there. The Aviator, has good direction, a good script, good performances by everyone involved (especially Leonardo DiCaprio who plays Howard Hughes), good original music, good cinematography, good film editing, good production design, good art direction, good set decoration and good costume design. The film is made by director Martin Scorsese, who I like very much as a filmmaker but I wasn't very impressed with his last film Gangs Of New York. Martin Scorsese, makes up for that film with this one. The Aviator, is entertaining, well made, is very good visually, is interesting, compelling, Leonardo DiCaprio gives an Oscar worth performance, the film is enthralling, the film is stylish, a good character study, gives us another Oscar worthy performance by Cate Blanchett who plays Katharine Hepburn and is just a very compelling and excellently made film from it's acting down to it's in detail production design. I would have liked to have known a little bit more facts about Howard Hughes, and his life but that is only a small complaint and I was very pleased with the rest of this film. A great film and one of the year's best.