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Tuesday, January 11, 2005 |
| The Aviator
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Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett and Kate Beckinsale, directed by Martin Scorsese. Howard Hughes (DiCaprio) is an eccentric billionaire indutrialist and hollywood film mogul, and is also a playboy. He became a millionaire at only 18 years. This is basically a biopic of Howard Hughes. It starts off showing Hughes as a visionary and genius who redefined film malking and aviation. But there is one thing seriously wrong with him, he is an obsessive germaphobe. He dreams of the fastest, biggest, craziest aircraft and spends every cent of his money making them come true. And because of all these obsessions, the general public view him as a lunatic and he becomes a laughing stork. This is even more so after the war ended and his planes became of no use. During the test flight, the plane crashed and he was seriously injured, physically, financially and worst of all mentally. After that, the US government unleashes a lawsuit against him, claiming that he cheated the government and the people of 56 million dollars because he did not delivered any functional one. The truth was that the senator in charge was 'bribed' by the owner of Pam Am the biggest aviation company at the time. With his wit in his hand and also 'evidance' against the senator's biasness he some what won the trial. It seemed like things have taken a turn for the better especially after his greatest creation the 'Hercules', the biggest aircraft ever made at the time managed to take flight. But in the end, he still went mad. The movie itself was not bad, I'm not too big a fan of biopics. But the actors gave a good performance. I personally think Leonardo DiCaprio gave an outstanding performance like he often does even though I don't really like him all that much and Cate Blanchett did a great work as Katherine Hepburn. Overall I rate this a good movie, most probably an award winning one. Watch it but I won't guarantee that you'll like it... Cheers...
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| posted by
WanTse @ 1/11/2005 11:47:00 pm
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