Review of The Great Gatsby (2013) by Bret F — 17 Aug 2017

While the film is visually stunning and has mostly good performances, there's something about Gatsby as a story that I cannot stand, and that is the characters. Although I'm sure.

This was the intention of author F. Scott Fitzgerald, I cannot get into the characters at all. Granted, after the film had ended, I did feel for the character of Gatsby due to events that I will not spoil, but every other character is so incredibly vapid and shallow that I cannot seem to get into it. The character of Daisy was especially maddening to me. Still, if you like the book (for whatever reason), you'll probably enjoy this film as well, as I'm sure it's fairly accurate to the source material, but it does feel style-over-substance at times. Then there's the Jay-Z music... like, what?