Surprisingly A Really Good Movie!

Rating: 9/10 (12 May 2013)

Really a great movie. As kind of went into it pretty low as I saw the 1974 movie with Robert Redford.
As Nick Carraway is in a psych ward for his drinking among others as a kindly doctor tells him to write a journal to describe how his dreams became a nightmare in the end.
As Jay Gatsby is a mystery as nobody has ever seen him before. And he just throws huge parties just to see the girl of his dreams but she herself is married. But that will not stop him at all. As to where he got his money at and how? Leonardo DiCaprio pulls off the title character of Jay Gatsby as he plays him with sympathy plus also with a little mystery, humor, and troubled on the side.
Tobey McGurie gives off a great performance as narrator and really the main protagonist plus Gatsby's neighbor, Nick Carraway an Yale grad and WWI vet trying to make a name in bonds originally wanted to be a writer in NY.
His cousin Daisy, Carey Mulligan comes off as snooty along with being troubled and just a lot more emotion than Mia Farrow gave off in the 1974 version.
The main antagonist in the film, her husband Tom played with charm and snootiness by Joel Edgerton really comes off as a rich, arrogant jerk and racist. Who tries to keep Daisy from Gatsby.
As all four characters seemed to be really fleshed out and not one dimensional like the 1974 movie.
But the only flaw I found is that they did not flash out the characters of George and Myrtle Wilson played by Australian actors Jason Clarke and Isla Fisher. As they only had two or three scenes. But they make the most of it.
Really a surprising great movie and just really glad that I saw it!