Much better then I was expecting. Slow start but makes you glad you finished. Never read book but I liked it OK. I say B.

Rating: 6/10 (17 July 2013)

"When I came back from New York I was disgusted. Disgusted with everyone and everything. Only one man was exempt from my disgust." Nick Carraway (Maguire) is a war veteran and aspiring writer who is working as a bond salesman on Wall Street. When he stops to visit his cousin Daisy and her husband he begins to see lies in the marriage. One day he receives an invitation to a party thrown by his millionaire neighbor Gatsby (DiCaprio) and his world becomes changed. This is a movie that I was really not excited about seeing at all. In spite of myself I am a DiCaprio fan and I have liked the movies that Luhrmann has made but to me the movie looked boring. I have never read the book so I wasn't really familiar with the story at all. I had an expectation of the style the film was going to be but that was about it. I thought the beginning was very slow moving and I was worried that the movie would not hold my attention. While it never really picked up too much I did find myself sucked in and am really glad that I stuck it out and finished it. To me this is not one of Luhrmann's best movies and it felt like a non-musical Moulin Rouge but it was much better then I was expecting. Overall, better then I expected. Starts off slow but does get better and better and makes you glad you finished it. I give it a B.