The great gatsby

Reviews for Baz Lurhman's "The Great Gatsby" are not that great. The latest version stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher, Joel Edgerton and Jason Clarke.


Ratings:-

IMDB- 7.5/10

Rottentomatoes- 2.5 /5

Comments:-
U.S. News and World Report - "falls short trying to serve both the Fitzgerald original and its filmmaker's aesthetic."

The New York Times reads that it's "less a conventional movie adaptation than a splashy, trashy opera, a wayward, lavishly theatrical celebration of the emotional and material extravagance that Fitzgerald surveyed with fascinated ambivalence."

But Leonardo DiCaprio has been described as "persuasive" and "magnificent" in his role as the mysterious millionaire.

Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal: "This dreadful film even derogates the artistry of Fitzgerald, who wrote 'The Great Gatsby' while living on Long Island and in Europe. In a deviation from the book that amounts to a calumny against literary history, Nick, the author's surrogate, is discovered in a psychiatric hospital where, as an aging alcoholic, he struggles to comprehend the vanished figure at the center of the long-ago story, and finally completes his treatment by writing the novel. It's literature as therapy, and Gatsby as Rosebud."