don't know how i feel

Rating: 6/10 (27 August 2013)

my girlfriend and i sat down and decided to watch gatsby. with decaprio i figure it would be great. decaprio was good at times, particularly the end. for some reason though none of the characters really garnered any interest from me. i get that it's a book adaption and that apparently the book was a love story, but i just couldn't enjoy it like i wanted to. aside from decaprio a lot of the characters were stale. i figured 2 hours and 22 minutes something is bound to keep my interest, and yet there were no highs whatsoever in the movie. not one climax or anything. the only reason i kept watching is because i paid 4.99 for the movie on demand. aside from the visual aspects the movie was highly disappointing. story and ending were decent at best. mysterious man? there wasn't much mysterious about him the whole movie. it was clear he was involved in bootlegging early on and i was waiting for some scene that would be so well crafted as to what gatsby was illegally in to. but of course there wasn't one. no climax, no point in the remake.