"The Aviator" celebrates Scorsese's zest for finding excitement in a period setting, re-creating the kind of glamor he heard about when he was growing up. It is possible to imagine him wanting to be Howard Hughes. Their lives, in fact, are even a little similar: Heedless ambition and talent when young.
It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn. The Aviator movie reviews & Metacritic score: Leonardo DiCaprio stars as aviation pioneer Howard Hughes in this biopic directed by Martin Scorsese. Although a little long, Aviator is an okay attempt at what Scorcese sought out to do.
The movie is very slow at times, but nevertheless a powerful film. This movie has some very violent airplane crashes, some causing serious. The Aviator, worryingly, often looks as if it could have been by any director, a director scared of ending on a sad note. You can't help remembering In The Aviator, Scorsese shrinks from the second part of this artistic equation. DiCaprio's Hughes has some nice moments, but where are the final chords? Visually spectacular and filled with terrific performances, Martin Scorsese's take on the Howard Hughes story never quite takes flight.
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On several occasions throughout the course of his Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator, Martin Scorcese throws in a contemporaneous snippet of newsreel footage or an archival radio broadcast. "Young Texas industrialist Howard Hughes just won't stop pouring money into his war epic. Leornado, who never joined the big league despite fine performances in films like Titanic and Romeo and Juliet. Been suggesting it to roommate for a while, First line of movie is lady spelling "QUARANTINE." I know I'm in the minority with my opinion that The Aviator is Martin Scorsese's absolute best movie in over twenty years, probably since Goodfellas.
Check out the exclusive TVGuide.com movie review and see our movie rating for The Aviator. Keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all your devices. Read the Empire Movie review of Aviator, The. Beneath the glossy surface there's a niggling lack of depth, but otherwise this is a grand But, while The Aviator was his strongest Oscar bid since GoodFellas (it is, after all, a movie about Hollywood), it couldn't withstand comparisons with.