Leonardo DiCaprio was a GREAT Great Gatsby

Rating: 9/10 (2 June 2013)

LOVED IT! Leo was fabulous as Gatsby who starts as mysterious then slowly reveals his disillusions. I was expecting this director to give us over-the-top glamour and glitz... and it fit the 1920's. The scenes when Gatsby is revealing the past (e.g., when he is describing what he is thinking just before his first kiss with Daisy) - excellent.
Trivia: in the book, Daisy has dark hair and Jordan is blonde. In both the 1974 movie and this one, their hair colour is reversed. Generally, I would say don't change a thing that Fitzgerald wrote, but I have to admit, in my mind, Daisy is blonde, Joardan is a brunette.
What I did not like: Toby Maguire as Nick I did not think was a great fit. Some of the music. Listen to the soundtrack of the 1974 movie "what will I do..." evokes the feeling of lost love really well.