Utterly boring

Rating: 3/10 (28 June 2007)

The tempo is slow, there story is very thin and apart from the senate hearing this movie is utterly boring and most of all irritating. While I am sure it is possible to depict Howard Hughes'OCD problems in a way that makes it interesting it is only annoying in this movie.
Apart from that the personal portraits of more or less everyone except for Hughes himself are vague, hastily done and poorly introduced into the plot. This goes especially for the women in his life.
There is a saying; never send a boy to do a man's job. This has never been more true than in the case of Leonardo Di Caprio. He'd better stick to playing lover-boy in his early twenties, because whenever he tries to play a grown-up man he fails utterly.