Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Console best movie i've ever seen.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

russellalancampbell This film has been and will continue to be compared to "The Aviator" - a film that frankly bored me. "The Amazing Howard Hughes" looked and felt real because it focused upon Hughes as a real life flesh and blood man and used few if any cinematic tricks. Tommy Lee Jones made a very credible Howard Hughes from his physique down to his accent.I am interested by the actual business dealings of Hughes and those around him rather than his marriages and affairs. Afterall, there have been many playboy millionaires in America's history but only one Howard Hughes. It wasn't the romances that made Hughes particularly interesting and this film didn't focus on them in the way "The Aviator did. For me, this was a positive.

MartinHafer While "The Amazing Howard Hughes" lacks the great CGI and beautiful polish of the later Hughes biopic "The Aviator", it is a terrific film--and better in some ways. Unlike "The Aviator", "The Amazing Howard Hughes" gives a much more complete account of the billionaire's life. While it fails to did in as much psychological depth as the later film and doesn't build the same sense of sadness, it is a very full portrait. While both films skip most of his childhood (and this is a shame), this made for TV movie goes from his early career through his final years--living as an insane recluse. In the process, Tommy Lee Jones did a wonderful job--looking and sounding much like the man he was portraying. Overall, a great look at the life of Hughes and one of the best made for TV films of the 1970s. And, not surprisingly, it helped to launch Jones' career to much greater heights. Well worth seeing.

Markus Bussmann After Scorsese and DiCaprio made the worthwhile "Aviator" it is with regret that this elaborate TV masterpiece is almost forgotten: It dares to portrait almost the whole life of Howard Hughes with far greater detail than Aviator, which certainly is more challenging for the viewer and at the cost of story telling, however after that you have a far better impression about the illustrious and manic personality of the first billionaire of the new age. The early dead of his parents, the apocalyptic end of Hughes, isolated and alone in various Hotels spread over the world, suffering from manias and letting hair and nails grow to the floor levels only surrounded by his Mormon servants is authentic and reported in biographies such as the Barlett/Steele standard and I cannot understand why DiCaprio/Scorsese thought they could tell the story about Hughes without several decades of his life. The bookkeeper character Noah Dietrich is at least given the importance he deserved and I assume the lack of flamboyance was the reason of cutting him out the Scorsese movie (not Rileys fault). Tommy Lee Jones delivers the best performance I have seen from him, hopefully the movie will be available online or on DVD somewhere soon.

marky_atl There's just no comparison between this excellent made-for-TV movie and the awful soap opera Aviator. And talk about casting... HRH was a long, tall (over 6') Texan with a southern drawl. So who does Scorsese pick? A short, blond, blue-eyed kid - di Caprio. On the other hand, Tommy Lee Jones was right on. Looked like Hughes, sounded like Hughes, etc, etc. Oh, and Ed Flanders was MUCH more believable in the role of Noah Dietrich than John Reilly.Both NetFlix and Blockbuster.com have it. If you prefer a chic flick with lots of romance and stories that focus about the women in his life, then Aviator wins. But if you really want to know about HRH, the Las Vegas acquisitions, the Glomar Explorer, etc, then The Amazing Howard Hughes is a far better choice.