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Title: Not goose, turkey
Review: Scorsese used to be a contender. Now he's a sad parody of himself, pitching a tired, bloated, by the numbers tale that runs out of gas not long after the premiere of Wings, which is where this tale should have ended. Everything after Hughes' short lived triumph is a predictable slide into madness. DiCaprio hams it up like the histrionic bore he's always threatened to be, while La Blanchett proves once again how over-rated she is. Her tiny little feet don't come close to filling Katherine Hepburn's shoes. This movie projects an illusion of class. It's insincere, pretentious waffle. Jonathan Demme's overlooked gem, Melvin & Howard, managed to say a whole lot more about Howard Hughes in five minutes than this overstuffed turkey manages in numerous hours. At least, it felt like hours.
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