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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. more..

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. more..