One of the worst casting jobs in movie history

Rating: Null/10 (11 August 2013)

to put aside of the badly scripted screenplay, the over-the-top directing, the exaggerated acting, the dizzy and fuzzy camera handling, the not-too-good editing, the pretentious costumes and so on, the casting, in my opinion, was one of the worst casting jobs since movie was invented. none of the actors and the actresses in this film looked appropriately enough to justify the vivid characters in the novel. three actors, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton and Adelaide Clemens, were just so obviously all wrong cast. among these three, Tobey Maguire was the worst of the worst, because his facial feature, especially his thin lips, his funny mouth shape and his physical compositions; too short limbs and small boyish size, simply impossible to match the Nick Carraway role in the least. Joel Edgerton squeezed together features simply couldn't reflect tom buchanan's filthy rich and cunning role. and Adelaide Clemens, just alike Tobey Maguire, just like a childish, not mature enough actor to match Catherine in the novelette. of course they are all good even great actors, but just not good enough and appropriate enough to play these three roles. they should have declined to sign on for these three roles in the first place, because they just looked out of the place in this movie and made me feel sorry and embarrassed for them.