Visually good but otherwise vapid

Rating: 3/10 (12 May 2013)

Visually Brilliant at times (and not so much sometimes) but vapid and pointless otherwise. All this comes down to is a remake of Moulin Rouge!, which I think is a flawed gem, but without the humour or enthrallingly joyous and silly musical numbers. Luhrmann, who is a great talent as is the entire cast, has reduced Fitzgerald to rubble. I'd rather not rate this because I really don't know what to give it. At IMDb I'm giving it a 4/10. It's just not that good but to be fair it should be broken down between visual accomplishment and story. For the visuals I would give it 3.5 out of 5. It doesn't come up to the spectacle that was Moulin Rouge! but it's still quite good in that respect. As a story, Baz spends too much time on the romance and not the tragedy of the central character's folly. For that, The Great Gatsby gets a 1 out of 5. Next time maybe he can remake The Ziegfeld Follies.