The Aviator

Leonardo Dicaprio as Howard Hughes
Cate Blanchett as Catherine Hepburn
Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner
John C. Reilly as Noah Dietrich
Alec Baldwin as Juan Trippe
Ian Holm as Professor Fitz
Jude Law as Errol Flynn


  What can be said about Howard Hughes.........Aviator?  Airplane designer? Emotionally distraught?  Physcologically unstable?  Mathematician?  Director?  Genius?  How about all of the above!

  Leonardo Dicaprio plays Howard Hughes a very succesfull film director and a brilliant airplane designer/aviator.  Hughes decided to make an airplane called,"The Hercules";the biggest plane in the world at the time,that takes off on water. 
  When Hughes becomes physcologically unstable he starts to lose him fame,but,when he finally gains control,he is able to pull himself back out of the water.

  What an intruiging film!  This is a film that cannot possibly be put down.  The work that each character puts into their roles is fantastic.  What emotion and phenomianl portrayals of each character.  Director Martin Scorsese has done so many masterpieces, and this film just adds another one on.  What about Martin Scorsese and Leonardo Dicaprio working together that makes them so great is a mystery,but every film that they have done together has been sensational.

  Howard Hughes is not someone that was ever taught about in the schools that I attended,and that is an absoelute shame.  Hughes did so much for the aviation buiness which is a huge role in todays society that he would be a great person to study about in schools.  This film shows us what he accomplished and the heartache and the success that he saw.  Which was very fascinating.

  The soundtrack in this film was great as well.  All of the music that was played was music of the era that the film takes place in, which is the 1920's to the 1940's.  Which made it even more so realistic.  Fabulous performances,intense and intruiging storyline,great cinemotography and wonderful direction make The Aviator achieve such great entertainment.