Now I've not read the source material so I can't compare and contrast in that respect. I'll be looking at this on a purely cinematic level.

So I love Leo DiCaprio, I love Tobey Maguire, they are both wonderful actors and give pretty solid performances here... and that is honestly about as much praise as I can give.

This film is just flat out bad, certainly not in a funny way either. It's so unrelentingly boring that I found my self having to take breaks at 20 minute intervals because I simply couldn't sit through it all at once. The worst part is when it isn't just a boring, uninspired montage of expository dialogue, it becomes a loud, obnoxious mess of misplaced modern music and really really terrible editing. I'm aware that a lot of films based in older settings use modern music as a sort of juxtaposition but in this film it's abused to the point of annoyance. Also why does Gatsby have to say "old sport" at the end of every single sentence? I get what they were going for and I don't know if that's how it was in the book, but for god sakes why does he need to say it so abundantly? If you took a shot for every time Gatsby says that phrase, you'd be dead in 30 seconds, if you hadn't already died of boredom.

Honestly what a waste of time, I'm amazed I actually managed to force myself through to the end of this snooze fest. Absolutely do not recommend.