The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is directed by Baz Luhrmann and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, and Tobey Maguire.   What mostly stood out for me is the very visceral and surreal beauty in the cinematography and detail of the Roaring 20's era.  Obviously, there was a lot of money spent on the production and the lead characters do a decent enough job.  Overall, that's about all I can say, as there was nothing exactly jutting out at me, except for the exceptional performances in Mulligan as Daisy and Joel Edgerton as her husband Tom.  Maguire, though a good actor, is just being his usual wide-eyed self essentially serving as the audience's witness and narrator to the enigmatic Gatsby and Daisy.  DiCaprio is now notorious for these type of roles, whether they are classic, period, etc. What I didn't like was how the lush production value overwhelmed the actual heart of the story, including brief soundtrack insertions by Jay Z.