Pretty Good

Rating: 8/10 (6 January 2016)

Very slight spoiler, just about the main thrust of the movie.
I am seeing some reviews about how bad the early minutes of the movie are. I agree they're pretty bad. I almost quit watching too. But once DiCaprio comes on the screen, things change. The direction gets a lot better, too. DiCaprio does a bang-up job portraying Gatsby, a man totally in love with a certain woman, and I felt touched by his performance and the movie. I fell more than a little in love with this movie, and never before has my feelings towards a movie gone from hate to love with this sort of arc. I think it is well worth anyone's time.
Now, admittedly I read "The Great Gatsby" decades ago and was unsure how much the movie stayed true to that. So I was adrift there. I liked the movie on its own merits. But looking online, it seems it remained pretty true. So I will take that as gospel until such time as I get to re-read the novel. Which is just to say, it's a great movie. You don't need to know the book.