Wow... What a waste of good acting - and of three hours. This movie has an incredible cast - Leo DiCaprio, Alec Baldwin, Ian Holm, Cate Blanchett, Jude Law, etc. etc., and some very fine acting from Mr. DiCaprio, but wow... what a let-down. The first hour was great - I LOVE Cate Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn, but as Howard Hughes' mental state starts to decline, so does the movie. The middle, until the last half hour of the movie (the movie being 170 minutes) just drags ON and ON, with explicit scenes of Hughes just going nuts. I just didn't see the point besides that a great man was destroyed by obsessive compulsive disorder. I was bored and weirded out. Sorry.