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| Director
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Martin Scorsese |
| Starring
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett,
Kate Beckinsale
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| The plot of
The Aviator |
In
his early years, Howard Hughes (DiCaprio), the
heir to the Hughes Tool Company fortune, first
takes on Hollywood, romances actress after actress
(Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner and Jean Harlow
among them), before moving on to become the king
of several U.S. industries. |
| The Aviator
Movie Review |
Reviewed by
Tiscali UK :
Billionaire, playboy, inventor, pioneer, film director,
oddball, germaphobe. Howard Hughes was all of these
things and Martin Scorsese's luscious new biography
races through one of the most extraordinary lives of
the twentieth century at full throttle. This is a consistently
and hugely entertaining film that leaves the viewer
wanting more, such is its intoxicating nature. Bound
to be a serious contender come awards time, it's arguably
Scorsese's finest work in twenty years.Considering the
scale and achievements of Hughes' life, it's an ambitious
project to pull off even a half-decent attempt to film
it, but John Logan's clever script hits nothing but
high notes. We first see Hughes as film director, with
The Aviator's opening sequence lovingly recreating his
attempt to produce and direct Hell's Angels in 1927,
a project which he spent $2m and two years shooting
before deciding to spend the same amount of time and
money reshooting it as a talkie.
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Review By Images
Journal :
All too often, movies based on real-life characters
tend to focus on the fall--on drug dependency, alcohol
abuse, sexual addiction, upon being a bad father or
husband, etc. The qualities that make an artist/entertainer
a success frequently go unexplored, or they're simply
taken as a matter of fact not worthy of analysis. Look
no further than HBO's recent biopic The Life and Death
of Peter Sellers for an example of a movie that nails
the subject's bad qualities but hardly even hints at
what made him a success. More..
Reviewed by TheMovieBoy :
For acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese (2002's "Gangs
of New York"), "The Aviator"—a
late-in-the-year bid for Oscar glory—arrives as
something of a disappointment. As a 169-minute cinematic
biopic, a genre that has recently risen in popularity
and output, this glossy telling of a twenty-year portion
of Howard Hughes' life is not as by-the-numbers as Taylor
Hackford's "Ray" and is certainly more narratively
cohesive than Oliver Stone's hideous "Alexander."
Superiority over such underwhelming efforts is no great
shake, but "The Aviator," at least, is sparklingly
acted, exquisitely photographed, and keeps lazy sentimentality
to a bare minimum. Scorsese has made many iconic classics
in his career—1976's "Taxi Driver,"
1980's "Raging Bull," etc.—but "The
Aviator" can only place at the lower-echelon of
his favorable works, due in large part to a bloated
running time that overstays its welcome even as it can't
fully do justice to its human subject. Judged on its
own accord and forgetting who the maker is, however,
the film is a solid, albeit flawed, effort.
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