Very well developed plot but too long

Rating: 9/10 (25 December 2008)

This movie is in my opinion an Oscar winner. The acting was very well performed, the music beautifully fit the scenes, and the story is well developed. If you are a big fan of Fitgerald's short story novels, you will find this movie very satisfying. I felt the movie started out very slow and there were some parts that did not seem necessary and only made the movie longer. For instance, they stopped too many times in the middle of the story and showed us the dying woman and her daughter scene, which at some point distracted me and cut the flow of the Benjamin story. But overall, I came out of the theater with a smile and a thought in my mind...