Brilliant, but LENGTHY

Rating: 9/10 (5 September 2008)

Howard Hughes is one of the most remarkable persons of the last century. This is the best movie ever made about him. 9 stars from me! The only thing that disappointed me a little bit was that at some points the scenes were a bit lengthy. The director must have been aware of the danger of lengthiness because in the movie Howard is complaining about lengthiness of his own movies. Leonardo Di Caprio proves in this movie that he is one of the most complete actors ever. As handsome as he is, he isn't afraid to "play ugly" (like in "What's eating Gilbert Grape") The way Leonardo evolves during the movie from the young into the old and mad Howard is just amazing! The last point of criticism is that Howard Hughes death (at the age of 70 in a plane crash) is not in the movie. A brilliant ending scene would have been that Howard was repeating the same last words while the plane was going down in stead of how the movie ends like it ends.