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The Aviator

2004

Martin Scorsese

Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Alec Baldwin ...

6.4

57,516

Drama The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan, tells the story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio), the eccentric billionaire industrialist and Hollywood film mogul, famous for romancing some of the world's most beautiful women. The drama recounts the years of his life from the late 1920s through the 1940s, an epoch when Hughes was directing and producing Hollywood movies and test flying innovative ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Simond Braund Empire	"It's a great story well told, but we expect more than good storytelling from the man who gave us Travis Bickle (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Mike Clark USA Today	"I wish Scorsese could have trimmed 10 or 15 minutes (...) overlength is the only thing that keeps The Aviator from being the year's best movie. But even as it is, it's the year's most exciting (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"What a sad man. What brief glory. What an enthralling film (...) This is one of the year's best films (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"The best moments in 'The Aviator' are the big set pieces with CGI effects (...) Unfortunately, the gee-whiz aspect takes over the human story"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'The Aviator' is very much like the climactic scene of the visionary Hughes battling to get his biggest plane (...) It’s a major struggle. But when it flies, it soars (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"The movie equivalent of a lavish coffee-table book, a love letter to the Golden Age of Hollywood from one of its foremost students."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An occasionally brilliant but eccentrically structured and finally unsatisfying demi-epic, which, at almost three hours, fails to give us a complete biopic of Hughes"	NEU
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"Despite a pacy, technically brilliant but otherwise slightly ordinary first half-hour or so, Scorsese’s Howard Hughes movie is his best since 'The Age of Innocence'"	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"Visually spectacular and filled with terrific performances, Martin Scorsese's take on the Howard Hughes story never quite takes flight"	NEU

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