This should have been a great movie. It's got a lot of very good actors, it's mostly faithful to the novel it's based on, and it's visually stunning. But it's not a good movie. It's just an OK movie.
First thing is the music. No matter how much you want to attract young audiences, hip-hop has no place in a movie about the 1920s. Some authentic jazz age sounds would have probably made this movie hop.
The eye-popping CGI (this thing was released in 3-D; a movie based on a literary classsic in 3-D?) makes The Great Gatsby look like Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
I also found the acting to be a bit flat. Lionardo DiCaprio is trying, but his fake blue blood accent with "Old Sport" every other word makes Gatsby comical rather than the mysterious tragic figure presented in Fitzgerald's novel.
The Bad Catholic gives it 2 out of 5.
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