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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:10
Rotten:16
Average Rating:4.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 26 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Jack Clayton's version of THE GREAT GATSBY was adapted for the screen by Francis Ford Coppola from F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 masterpiece about a handsome and enigmatic tycoon betrayed by the... [More]
Starring: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Sam Waterston
Director: Jack Clayton
The color is rich, the photography superb, and the atmospherics of the roaring twenties are realistically and stunningly in evidence in this film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece novel, but that's it.
The Francis Coppola script and Jack Clayton's direction paint a savagely genteel portrait of an upper class generation that deserved in spades what it got circa 1929 and after.
Top CriticDirector Jack Clayton seems overawed by the opulence of the production as well as by the mythic presence of Fitzgerald -- and the result is a film of shimmering surface brilliance and almost complete lack of focus or substance.
Top CriticA literary adaptation that continually begs detrimental comparison with the novel, this relies too much on appearance, making little attempt to explore behind the beguiling '20s façade.
Too slow, too dull. Redford lacked the danger of Fitzgerald's creation.
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Despite oppulent production values, Jack Clayton's second Hollywood version of Fitzgerald's great novel is a misfire, a dull feature that suffers from lack of chemistry between Robert Redford and Mia Farrow (who's miscast).
The movie can't see this through all its giant closeups of pretty knees and dancing feet. It's frivolous without being much fun.
Top CriticThe movie is 'faithful' to the novel with a vengeance -- to what happens in the novel, that is, and not to the feel, mood, and spirit of it.
Top CriticThough lush in nearly every way, under the reproachful eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg, The Great Gatsby becomes ineffectual and rudderless.
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Law & Order's Sam Waterston is superb in support
Call it a convincing argument for separation of book and film.
Robert Redford offers an interesting take on mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby.
...an opulent, stylish extravaganza that may be more faithful to the 'look' of Fitzgerald's novel than to its spirit, yet brings a good deal of entertainment along the way.
a movie that looks great but means little
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