I've been a fan of DiCaprio long before he became famous and this here is without question the greatest performance he's given so far. Scorsese was the perfect person for this project because of his ramped up speed but here is goes all out and really delivers an incredibly wicked little ride that will have you smiling and laughing at some very questionable things.
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This film is certainly over-the-top in regards to the excess but so were the characters so I thought they just went hand and hand with each other. Yes, there are some moral police out there who are going to object to a movie being made about a man who ripped off poor people but I'm sorry, I like the fact that this film doesn't really care about those people and instead just gives us an in-your-face look at these wild people, their wild drugs and their wild sex lives. Yeah, it's GOODFELLAS on speed and ramped up sex but it's just so brilliantly and wickedly funny that you can't help but laugh at all the craziness going on. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET is going to make many people unhappy and there are many more who are probably going to be offended by it but the perfection that is Scorsese was right when he decided to turn this into a comedy instead of a drama.
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Martin Scorsese's latest film is yet another brilliant one with Leonard DiCaprio turning in the greatest performance of his career as stockbroker Jordan Belfort who takes some rather bland people and turn them into one of the biggest scams that the FBI ever saw.
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) **** (out of 4) Two word review: A Masterpice. I can understand why women would truly hate this film as they are nothing more than pawns in a male power game, but The Wolf Of Wall Street gives us a fascinating look at a man who tried to play with the big boys of the Stock Exchange and for a while, did. McConaughey only forgets to teach DiCaprio one thing, discretion. Matthew McConaughey plays a stockbroker who takes him under his wing and they have a great scene at a club where he's getting his first three martini lunch. The guy who beat Leo out for Best Actor has a brief but telling role as a mentor of sorts. In his own Hill is almost as fascinating a story as DiCaprio. The kind of nondescript character that you wouldn't look at twice, Hill gets taken to a world that he could only imagine in dreams wet or dry by DiCaprio. Five Oscar nominations went to The Wolf Of Wall Street, nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and nominations for DiCaprio and Jonah Hill as Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. It so reminded me of that famous incident from 1984 where presidential candidate Gary Hart dares reporters to follow him around to catch him doing anything outside his marriage. But in Goodfellas would not have had a scene where the wise guys just out and out dared to challenge the FBI as DiCaprio does with agent Kyle Chandler. Like Ray Liotta in Goodfellas a combination of drugs and hubris makes him think he's invulnerable. The narration of the film is by DiCaprio and it takes you from his rise to where law enforcement has him between a rock and a hard place. Martin Scorsese directed this film and handled the film like he did one of his gangster epics like Goodfellas. True of DiCaprio and true to a lesser extent of all his associates. The world consists of 50% orgies and 50% piling up paper profits and later on hiding them from authorities. Women work on Wall Street in the more traditional brokerage houses, but not with him where being one of the boys is the first requirement. Women just do not compete in DiCaprio's world. I have seen very few films that have depicted the alpha male world so well. That is sure to attract all kinds of law enforcement attention. With a collection of his own ill assorted bunch of friends chief among them is Jonah Hill, these guys and I do mean it is reserved for the male of the species DiCaprio makes obscene amounts of money and spends it obscenely. But DiCaprio takes it far from a penny stock outfit.
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He organizes his own brokerage house, similar to what is seen in the more modestly financed film The Boiler Room. DiCaprio is not about to give up his dream. He goes, but then is one of thousands cast adrift by the stock market crash of the late Reagan years. At first it's the realization of the American dream, DiCaprio the middle class kid wants to go on Wall Street. Edgar Hoover, each of who lived large in his own way with power, DiCaprio lives large with money. Leonardo DiCaprio as he did with such other real life figures like Howard Hughes and J. It was good while it lasted until some relentless FBI agents took him down partly because of his own hubris. The Wolf Of Wall Street details the rise and fall in real life of one Jordan Belfort who for a while was living high and wide off of other people's money.