I was so looking forward to it, but - - - -

Rating: 3/10 (13 January 2016)

At some points in your life, frequently during an alcohol abetted musing, you will reflect on expended time that you wish you could have back. This movie is one of those times. Boring, pointless and banal, it would have been a trial at 90 minutes. At two and a half hours, it's stultifying. While the CGI and cinematography are impressive, the dialog is creaky, the characters obvious and stereotypical. Even the eventual (and merciful) ending was obvious about halfway through, thanks primarily to the dream state reappearances of the film's eponymous character.
I don't pretend to know the criteria that Leonardo Dicaprio employs in selecting certain scripts (like a "Great Gatsby" that F. Scott Fitzgerald would never recognize) but he should have passed on this one. I wish I had.