This was not a good movie, it is probably the worst Di Caprio movie i've ever seen
This Movie of course is based off Scott Fitzerald's Novel, The problem is that while Scott Fitzerald knew how to present certain situations, the screenwriters did not, They simply failed to present the economic layer like the way it is shown in the book, they also failed to show the dark side of the wealth club like it should have been shown. Its quite the opposite actually, The movie seems to embrace the ignorance of the rich, it is pretty obvious with the 10 minute long Party Montages, and the fact that R&B music plays in a 1920s set does not help at all.
The pacing, it is all over the place. This is probably the most annoying part of the film, at first the pacing is blistering fast, you almost cannot make out what you are watching, half way through it goes slow, like too slow, then at the end it speeds up again, not only to slow down once more. The way i see it is that the producers tried to make the film more exciting than it actually is in order to appeal to the mainstream. As a result the pacing of this film was a total mess
The cinematography and the visuals were good, though like 75% of this film is cgi, its not bad, but this being a 2013 movie, it shows. In general i liked the colour patterns, seems like they are in sync with the emotions of the characters, its a pretty cool little detail
The cast is average. This is an unpopular opinion. Di Caprio basically carried this film himself all the way to the end in my opinion(although this "old sport" line became boring real quick). Tobeys role could have been played by anyone, it did not require any special skill nor any special emotion, and tobey himself did not try too hard to bring anything new to the table. The rest of the actors were bland, again, it felt like an indie film in many occasions, but they are not the reason this film turned bad to be very clear
At the end of the day i do not believe that the Novel The great Gatsby was a good base for a commercial film to begin with, Its too fairytale-ish, predictable after a point, its bland. Feels like it has been done many times before. this is probably why they tried so hard to facelift the whole situation, but no matter how hard they tried, it just turned out as a boring film, and the fact that they tried so hard with the 00s music and the oversaturated visuals, cinematography and pace, most likely made it even worse.