The Great Gatsby - A Review

1 Star - Dreadful

I was never going to like this, so my opinion is probably not one to listen to all that much.

The film is dull, not very well written and not all that well performed. For starters Tobey Maguire is the main character and he was seriously bland and not very good, and Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan can do a lot better than this.

Baz Luhrman is a bad director, he focuses on style more than substance and the style doesn't work. The visuals aren't very interesting and the modern music in the twenties setting is just massively out of place.

The biggest word that hits me here is inauthentic. It just feels so inauthentic.

You could have been watching Inception or Blood Diamond instead...

In short, don't see it. Just don't.