Shallow and empty

Rating: 3/10 (21 May 2013)

With big names like Leanordo De Caprio and Tobey Maguire, one must expect an amazing movie experience based on a good book, sadly, this is not the case. the film was suppose to be a Romantic Drama, however, it lacked in both Romance and Drama. for starters, it failed to capture the love between Jay and Daisy, not a lot of light shed on their previous relationship, i really could not care less if she went back to Jay or not, in fact, i felt that Jay Gatsby is a wife stealing creep. the pace of the film was another problem, it was super slow, and dragged at times giving a feeling of boredom. there were also some technical problems with direction of the film, the sound editing was poor and several clips has poor synchronized sound to picture especially when characters are speaking.
Leaonardo's acting was also below his usual in my opinion, i felt like he just didn't live the role, something was missing this time in his performance, every time he said " Old Sport " it felt fake and obvious acting !! Tobey Maguire was better, and Carey Mulligan was OK.
the biggest problem is that the story seemed shallow and empty, mainly because of the lack of the sense of Drama and the feel of the spark or the obsessional love of Jay toward Daisy, i think the film failed to capture that. add to that a slow boring pace and it just failed to ignite. they even had to spell the words on the screen in certain clips to make the viewers understand,i mean literally they had words typed on the screen like some sort of stylish direction, if i wanted to read i would have bought book !
some of the positives were the costumes and set designs were perfect for a 1920s period. the music was also energetic and fun.
So to summarize, a slow, boring shallow and empty film with nice set designs and costume designs, nice music, decent acting.