Rating of
2.5/4
Acquits itself rather well
Filmhog - wrote on 01/17/10
I started watching this film expecting to cringe. I mean, a hip-hop adaptation of "The Great Gatsby"? Come on. But overall I was very pleasantly surprised at how well the director and screenwriters pulled it off (though the party scenes should have been more spectacular). Unfortunately, they completely changed the novel's ending. I'm not one of those people who feels that literary adaptations need to be slavishly faithful to their sources, but in this case I think it really was a liability. I would have given this a solid 3 stars, but because of the ending I am giving it 2.5.
