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Aviator cruises but not quite soars (4 *)
Will a movie biography about a great person be a great movie? Not necessarily as in the case of "Aviator". Leo DiCaprio turns in a good performance as wealthy eccentric Howard Hughes. His one time love interest Katherine Hepburn is portrayed uncannily nicely by an actress whose name escapes me.
The same problem dogs "Aviator" that dogged Will Smith as Muhammad Ali in "The Greatest." Interesting or even great lives aren't lived as stories. They don't have morals, and often as not just proceed without necessarily having any progression. Both movies just end rather than reach a conclusion, almost as if the editing room ran out of tape. But that's the way lives are lived, ususally.
Alan Alda turns in a gem as a corrupt senator and Alec Baldwin, likewise, as Juan Trippe, the ruthless and calculating president of Pan Am airways.
Aviator is an entertaining, well made film about an extrememly wealthy entrepeneur who suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder. There's no real message there, but we can't blame Howard Huges for that nor the director.
Last edited by posterchild, 1/9/2005, 10:10 am
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1/9/2005, 10:05 am
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