The Great Gatsby (2013) - The great boredom - 3/10 (17/05/13)

"The Great Gatsby" is a movie that convinces with well done visual effects even though they weren't worth a 3D adaption at all. The soundtrack of the movie was also decent as well as costumes, light work and locations. Leonardo DiCaprio did another convincing job but he has also done far better before as well.

These are the only positive things I could tell you about this boring movie based on a horribly overrated novel. There are so many bad points that I honestly don't really know where to start. The story is extremely lame and predictable. The main love story never managed to touch me even though I'm a rather emotional and romantic person. Even the disgusting and evil characters didn't evoke any kind of emotion in me. The only moments where something finally happens in the movie are maybe the last thirty minutes and it's not all too breathtaking neither. The first two hours are almost event-less and there isn't any character development neither. The acting is superficial and simply forgettable. It has been a while since I have seen a movie with such a bad and exchangeable acting. Especially the narrator and main character didn't give me anything at all and remained absolutely faceless. The movie tried to criticize the mindless life of the roaring twenties but its attempt remained dull and vague.

In the end, I was close to leave my local movie theatre several times and the film was really hard to sit through after all. This drama has a lot of lengths, includes mostly faceless actors and focuses on an ordinary story line that could be told in three lines and that doesn't carry a movie with an overrated length of two hours and a half. The costumes and effects are okay but not worth your money for an expensive 3D screening.

In the end, as a fan of many movies centred around the roaring twenties and the depressive thirties in the United States of America (from "The Godfather" over "Once Upon A Time In America" up to "Gangster Squad") and also as a fan of Leonardon DiCaprio in many of his movies ("Titanic", "Inception", "Shutter Island") I was really disappointed by this flick. I wouldn't watch it again and would recommend you to avoid this content-less piece of glam and glitter at all costs.