Everything Old Is New Again, and Again, and Again, and Again.

Rating: 10/10 (6 September 2013)

Every time that Hollywood runs out of good, original, ideas, it reaches for the classic novels that made for good movies in previous iterations, and re-shoots them.
Each time, they try to reclaim the factual past in terms of history, and yet tweak the story to make it seem fresh and new.
For the fifth time, Hollywood has reinterpreted F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the same name, and, for the fifth time, the reinterpretation is about as far afield from Fitzgerald's original book as it is possible to do and still fill the theater seats.
The production isn't bad, but there are historical glitches that jump right off the screen for those who know a little history.
Nevertheless, the new generations will enjoy the story for what it is: a good yarn that is worth retelling.