Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation pioneer and director of the movie Hell's Angels The movie depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became a successful film producer and an air travel mogul while all at once growing more unstable due to extreme obsessive-compulsive problem (OCD).

Ironically, regarding this reviewer is worried one of the most mixing, many remarkable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Aviator isn't the (undoubtedly impressive) aerial battle at the start of the movie, Bookmarks or the aircraft collision later, or any of the interpersonal goings-on.

It is a historic impressive that focused on a key period in the life of Howard Hughes among one of the most well-known and probably essential guys of the twentieth century. Even if it's not a full success, neither one of his finest flicks, I still find it to be much more enjoyable than most of junk Hollywood blacks out on a regular basis.

The filmmakers needed to concentrate both on previous accounts of Hughes' habits as well as the time period, considered that when Hughes was dealing with the problem, there was no psychiatric interpretation wherefore troubled him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Pilot was released in the United States on December 25, 2004, to favorable evaluations with critics applauding Scorsese's instructions, its cinematography and the performances by DiCaprio and Blanchett.