look at the Oscars...

Rating: 7/10 (11 September 2005)

The best summary for this film can be provided by the prizes it won: lots and lots (editing, cinematography, costumes, even acting), but not for the best picture. Really, looking at it I continuously had the impression of grandeur, greatness, and that the director, the actors, the crew had made a terrific work... but for what? To narrate the life of a movie producer, billionaire, hypochondriac aviator, whom we have no reason to like. Surely Di Caprio is a great guy, and mesmerising probably for many, and so we end up liking the figure of Howard Hughes; but I think that the emptiness of this character *is* Di Caprio's ability to make us like him.
Perhaps this film is just like Hughes' life: a great effort, put down with enormous ability, to build nothing. So, 7 out of 10 for me.
A little curiosity: it seems to me the second role for Di Caprio dealing with Pan Am, the first being "Catch me if you can".