A great movie

Even though this flick tends to be overlooked, out of the all movies DiCaprio and Scorsese have made together (including also 'Gangs of New York', 'The Departed', 'Shutting Island' and 'The Wolf of Wall Street'), it is easily my favorite one. Indeed, I thought that the story was spellbinding, the directing, as expected, was just awesome and there was an impressive cast involved as well. Above all, I thought that Howard Hugues was such a fascinating character. Of course, I have no idea if this portrait was really faithful or not but I just loved this portrait of this tormented genius who was suffering from his obsessions. It was definitely one of the most neurotic figure I have seen in a movie and the fact that he was handsome, rich and brilliant made the whole thing even more spellbinding to watch. My only critic would be that towards the end the whole thing tend to loose some focus and it then drags down a little bit but, a part from that, it was pretty much flawless. Eventually, I think the main reason that it wasn’t a greater success was because the audience was still struggling to take Leonardo DiCaprio seriously. I mean, if they would make this movie today, I have no doubt that it would be a much bigger critical success. Anyway, to conclude, I really loved this movie and I think it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Martin Scorsese's work.