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movie review - The Aviator

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a movie directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio with a supporting ensemble including Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin and Alan Alda. This might be about all you need to know.

DiCaprio plays the driven and talented Howard Hughes in a manner that suggests he wants to be treated as a grown up actor (but doesn't seem to he knows how). All of the latter play the roles you'd expect: Alda is an opportunistic politician; Baldwin is the smooth, creepy adversary; Reilly is the earnest straight man; Beckinsale is the strong-willed, free-spirited object of Hughes's affection; Blanchett plays the Strong Independent and Political Woman who refuses to play a supporting female role to Hughes. Even Ian Holm turns up with a silly German accent to play a bright but inconsistent professor.

Really, it's movie-by-numbers. The best part was learning some historical insights too look up in Google.

Not recommended.