The Aviator Review
by Jon Popick (jpopick AT sick-boy DOT com)December 20th, 2004
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Everyone is talking about Martin Scorsese winning the Oscar this year (he's never won) for The Aviator, even though it's not even close to being the greatest film he's ever made. You know, the same people who made the same claims two years ago when Scorsese's Gangs of New York hit theatres.
The Aviator - a biopic about the early years of Howard Hughes (pre-Melvin & Howard) - isn't nearly as enjoyable as Gangs, though it is flawed in many of the same ways (namely in the rambling running time). Leonardo DiCaprio returns to the Scorsese fold, playing Hughes in what I'm confident would have been a head-turning performance were it not opposite Cate Blanchett's positively mesmerizing turn as Katherine Hepburn. The Aviator takes a big hit when her C/Kate disappears. Worth viewing just for her, and the spectacular plane crash scene, which made me stop thinking about Howard Hughes and start thinking about Lost.
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