Review: 'The Aviator' has moments but loses them in a holding pattern

The Aviator    PG  13           

            Leo DiCaprio plays Howard Hughes, the famous rich aviator and airplane novice, in this 2004 winner. Fun but not 4 stars here, because DiCaprio is just too much, and he's still made up to look nice even after his character is supposedly seriously burned all over his body from a crash. (As Hughes had been). The depression scene would have made a lot more sense if he was really badly scarred too. Scorsese is kind of losing it here, because some of it is epic, and a lot of it isn't.  

Review by Adam Browne