The Wolf Of Wall Street is impeccably crafted as you would expect and it was sporadically hilarious as you might not.

However, it still ends up being a rather long slog to watch this life of a salesman.

I'm glad I saw it, but I'll never watch it again.


4 out of 5.

This was a great movie. I didn't really have many expectations for it but it blew me away. DiCaprio is just fantastic here. He may give his best performance ever (though between this and Revolutionary Road it's close) and the fact he may yet again miss out on an Oscar nomination is ridiculous. He fully embodies himself to this character. Jordan should be a completely unsympathetic prick, yet he really isn't. There are moments where you realize he is just addicted and in the end really just needs help. He isn't a bad guy, he was just making a boatload of bad choices. Jonah Hill and Margot Robbie were also both fantastic. As for the three hour running time, I don't think it felt bloated at all. It flew by for me. It's incredibly engrossing, funny and entertaining. Don't miss it. It's one of the best movies of the year.

10/10

I never felt much sympathy for Jordan. I do not believe this is intended as an addiction/recovery story, either. Notice with how much playful self-satisfaction he describes his "hard time" in prison, represented by a scene of him playing tennis with a few other inmates on a private court.

I totally think he is supposed to be sympathetic. From his scene in London with Emma, to the final sex scene with his wife, to him writing the note for Jonah Hill's character for him not to be caught.

Scamming people out of their money by misleading them doesn't make them a bad guy?

Right before he punches her?

You can tell from his first day of work he is a good guy, the world has changed him drastically, obviously. I think he was trying to change and he was just addicted.

Scorsese offsets The Wolf of Wall Street's bloated 3-hour running time with a film that is a beautiful, often glorious mess. There's so much going on here and the energy level is so consistently high that it's practically impossible to be bored. The characters are all despicable and occasionally even disgusting, yet the film manages to be totally hilarious. This was probably the hardest I've laughed at a film all year (oh my holy hell, the Quaaludes scene! dead dead dead). In one of his best performances ever, Leonardo DiCaprio is sensational and it will be a travesty if he's not nominated for an Oscar. He's so live-wired, energetic, charismatic and funny that it's not only easy to see why Jordan Belfort basically became a god to most of these people but it also reminds us yet again of his range as an actor. He's ably supported by Jonah Hill, whose largely odious character typifies the film's basic message. In another stellar supporting performance, the gorgeous Margot Robbie shines as a Long Island trophy wife (she should be in the Oscar conversation too but it probably won't happen). Did this need to be 3 hours? No, probably not. But I guess it makes sense if you're going to make a movie about depravity and excess, you provide a running time of excess. A-

P.S. the guy who introduces DiCaprio in the very last scene is the real Jordan Belfort.

Holy shit, no. He's pond scum from the beginning. It's even in the text.

And if it wasn't apparent from the beginning, how about when he slaps and then punches his wife BEFORE breaking his two year sobriety by snorting a pile of cocaine?

The drugs just heighten how much of a shithead he is. And he still is at the end ("Sell me this pen.").

What we do agree on, more importantly though, is how great the film is.


This was awesome. It's Scarface with stocks. It's also, surprisingly, the funniest movie of the year. And who knew DiCaprio was such the physical comedian? There are two scenes involving quaaludes (one on a plane, the other at a country club) that are pretty much perfect comedically thanks to DiCaprio. These scenes are what make him so good. He is absolutely fearless as an actor, especially here, and because of it, this might be his best work to date.

As for Scorsese, it's just another home run, though it might not be quite a grand slam (Goodfellas). It's been rumored that the original length for the film ran somewhere in the area of four hours. This version is just under three (though it never feels it...the film is an absolute breeze to sit through), and towards the end it does feel like some of it has been chopped out. Just a small complaint though.

Hilarious, debaucherous, and ultimately deeply scathing, The Wolf of Wall Street joins an already impressive list of some of Scorsese's best work.



***** (A+)

FUCKING (a new record set by the film) LISTS!

1. Goodfellas
2. Raging Bull
3. Taxi Driver
4. The Departed
5. After Hours
6. Hugo
7. The Wolf of Wall Street
8. The Aviator
9. The Color of Money
10. Casino
11. The King of Comedy
12. Shutter Island
12. Gangs of New York
13. Boxcar Bertha

I have yet to see a Scorsese movie I haven't at least liked.

This set the record for most fucks in a movie? I doubt that. Maybe it was because it was such a long movie, but I definitely thought that End of Watch had more swearing. It actually bothered me in that movie because it was so annoying that is was constant. Here though it didn't bother me.

Wiki has it at 506 while IMDb has it at 414.

Edit: Turns out the classic "Gutterballs" holds the record for a non-documentary with 625 "fucks".

Excellent film. A+.

Who the fuck are they kidding, Dicaprio should easily win the Oscar for this one.

In regard to the portrayal of Jordan, it is a total Scarface '83 dynamic: the film glorifies and is in love with him and the insanity of lifestyle, even if it is "meant" to be a rise-and-fall/spiritual-vacuity narrative.

Antiheroes are out of fashion at the moment - - kids mistakenly think every leading character in a film needs to be a superhero nowadays.

What? If anything, antiheroes are very IN FASHION at the moment. Look at the television landscape.

Agree. Plus Belfort is not even an anti-hero, he is a straight villain, enjoyable, but a villain nonetheless.

brill.

Fuckin fantastic. Just like Blue is the Warmest Color, it is such an easy three hours to get through and every second is brilliant. This is perhaps Leo's best role to date as he kills it here as do Hill, Robbie, McConaughey, Milioti, and Dujardin. It's also by far the funniest film of the year. I just can't wait to watch this again and again. It's a battle between this and Blue now for best of the year.

Also, Margot Robbie's got a body. Dayum.

Incorrect.

Next you'll be saying Tony Montana isn't an antihero.

...and TV is for old folks nowadays, not kids.

It's also hilarious to think just how many women went into a casting call and got a role based off how hot their bodies were naked or just pure hotness in general.

Examples:
- Brad's "out of jail" party on the yacht
- The bachelor party scenes
- The chick in the golf course scene who's only need on screen is to be groped by Leo

yeah, it's entertaining but pretty shallow. not even particularly original. but it's good, i guess.

60

Robbie obviously deserves Oscar attention. and porn attention.

Robbie is too hot for porn.