Crazily shot movie going experience

Rating: 7/10 (15 March 2014)

I have read the book 'The Great Gatsby' and thoroughly enjoyed it adding to my anticipation to this film. The majority of the performances in this film are really good especially Toby Maguire as Nick Carraway, Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan and especially the great Leonardo Di Caprio as Jay Gatsby. This character is one we are truly meant to root for and feel like we want him to succeed whereas Buchanan is meant to be a bad guy that we very much dislike against our favourite Gatsby. I also feel without Maguire's solid performance then this film would probably fall apart as he is an essential part of the film as well as Gatsby. However, I felt there was a few issues with this film such as some overacting and overdramatic performances especially from Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan who just felt like this overacted woman. But the main problem sometimes is the craziness of some of the set pieces of this film which sometimes takes away from the narrative of the film even though the party scenes were impressive and the best looking parts of the film. Also I guess knowing the ending of the film did hinder my experience even though it was done very well in my opinion. This film is a true representation of the novel and is great with its story but there is some problems with it and is not perfect but is still very good.