Beautiful. Brilliant. Riveting. 12/10.

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2004)

Awesome in spirit, of snapshots of the lives of Howard Hughes, Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Jean Harlow. Beautiful. Brilliant. Riveting. 12/10. Hughes' personality tics were addressed, down to the long fingernails and germ fears. Yuck. Beautifully essayed by Mr. Di Caprio. Apparently the mental illness began quite early in Mr. Hughes' life, but I noticed that when Hughes was flying his planes he was totally professional and on top of things. I actually liked the 3 hour length of this movie, and feel that it took that long to tell the story of a very complicated and caring man. I loved the part where Howard annihilates the senator in the courtroom. I was rooting for Howard to beat him at the hearings, and I was not disappointed. "Ol' sick Howard" really gave him what-for. Howard invented the word "guts", and I feel that Leonardo Di Caprio did an excellent job. Kudos to the actor. Hughes was a great aviation pioneer. Again, 12/10.