The Great Gatsby

2013 • 142 minutes

À propos de ce film

The Great Gatsby follows would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy (Carey Mulligan), and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton). It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without of the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.

Notes et avis

This is the first time ever I wanted to poke my eyes out and burn them after watching a movie. I was so disappointed and almost about to cry because of the movie being so bad that I wanted the 2 hours of my life back that I spend watching it. My wife stopped me from jumping out of the window from 15th floor when we watched it. It's a big warning for all you movie fans out there. Protect yourself from this movie and don't buy it!

The Great Gatsby delivers absolutely awful performances from absolutely talented actors. The out of place modern music alongside unnecessary camera angles don't disguise from the fact that this film utterly boring. Baz Luhrmann -yet again- produces a film that is clearly only a masterpiec in his eyes. The film is riddled with obvious cgi and and blatantly bad scene transitions all wrapped up in a frenzy of mediocre dialogue.

Not read the book and didn't know what to expect. The trailer made it out to be a story created from an imaginative mind like "Big Fish" or "Alice in Wonderland." Instead we were presented with a story about love, and the friction between those born into wealth with no ambition and those too ambitious to ever stop and take in what they have achieved.