Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie illustrates the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics pioneer and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The film represents his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be an effective movie producer and an air travel mogul while simultaneously growing a lot more unstable due to extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Ironically, regarding this reviewer is concerned the most stirring, many memorable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (admittedly impressive) airborne battle at the start of the movie, or the aircraft crash in the future, or any of the social goings-on.
It is a historic legendary that focused on a vital period in the life of Howard Hughes among one of the most probably essential and renowned males of the twentieth century. Also if it's not a full success, neither among his finest films, I still find it to be much more entertaining than most of scrap Hollywood blacks out on a weekly basis.
Clocking in at 169 mins, The Pilot attempts to remain aloft, but like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic jumbo can keep itself airborne just a couple of minutes at a time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The aviator sunglasses prescription images: Miramax Detector Bros