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Title: Shallow and lacking in in focus
Review: The movie does not have a deep focus whether it be Hughes as the Business Genius, Hughes as the Engineering Genius, or Hughes as the Deeply Troubled Man. Instead it hip-hops from topic to topic hoping that special effects will keep us interested and mere vignettes are sufficient. DiCaprio is hopeless as an actor when he is is required to show Hughes' slide into a compulsive isolated world. In fact the screen play gives no assistance in developing our understanding or sympathy for Hughes.Hughes' story has all the makings of a great tradegy; the hero brought down by the tragic flaw of compulsion possibly aggravated by physical injury. The only tragic element in this movie is that so much money and talent was wasted making it!It is an indictment of the movie industry that this movie is considered Oscar winning quality.
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