The Pilot Reviews.

Based on the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel leader and supervisor of the movie Heck's Angels The movie represents his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes ended up being an effective film manufacturer and an aeronautics tycoon while simultaneously expanding more unstable due to serious obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

The much but short heralded flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was reasonably recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The movement control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar minis developed by New Offer Studios get on screen at the Evergreen Aeronautics Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is rarely averse in danger his life in various other means, coming to be a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground a lot to the discouragement of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The aviator nation kids with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

Clocking in at 169 minutes, The Pilot tries to stay aloft, however like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic big can maintain itself in the air just a couple of mins each time. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot images: Miramax Detector Bros