G movie review & film summary (2005)
"G" enters a world not much seen in the movies, the world of affluent African-Americans whose summer places are in the Hamptons. I wish it had approached this material with a clean slate, and given us a story made from scratch. That it's fitfully based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is only a distraction; noting how it followed the novel and how it didn't, I wondered why the clarity of Fitzgerald's story line was replaced by such a jumble of a plot. The film is a fictional recycling of details from its immediate inspiration, Sean Combs, a k a Diddy, althoug...