Oh DiCaprio what have you done?

I'll give it to the film that it's faithful to the source material, but alas far-far too faithful; the book "The Great Gatsby" is an American classic and a very good read, but when it comes to this film adaptation it leaves an awful lot to be desired.

It's as though its scared to veer off from the source material and stringently follows it scene for scene, dialogue for dialogue, action for action, like it's a direct copy, a replica that is so much more inferior.

DiCaprio is better than this and I have to feel sorry for him, Jay Gatsby is a great role for an actor to score, but I highly doubt that DiCaprio knew how flat and wooden the finished product would be.

Flat and wooden, all over the production, it was acted wooden, spoken wooden, and a bit annoying to follow in places, particularly during the second half after Gatsby has made his grand entrance finally into the film; you expected DiCaprio as good as he is to elevate things, but when he finally appears, all hopes of that are dashed and you are simply waiting for the credits to roll.

As I said at the beginning, read the book, it's better!