Wolf of Wall Street could have been brilliant. It could have been the Scarface of our generation: a depiction of greed to the ultimate excess with a character arc that took you for a ride from an arrogant man with nothing all the way through to the total destruction of him and everything around him. Instead we got an over indulgent, love letter to having lots of money and spending that on drugs, sex and material things. This film makes no point and has nothing to say about this excess wealth, the consequences for the means with which he obtained it, the pain and suffering he brought on the world, to his own family or himself. It simply says that what he did is possible, that you could do it, that anyone can do it really, and that if you do all you need to do at the end is serve a little prison time and pay a $110 million dollar fine. (Which he had enough money to pay, WTF!?!?)
I'm actually really disappointed in this movie. There was so much potential, and so many great parts to the first half of this movie, I thought I was going to get to see one of the biggest fall from graces ever to be seen in film. Instead I get asked to sell him a pen. What a cop out. What were you thinking Marty? Im not sure what happened during the making of this flick, but you seemed to lose your way and to end up not making a point about anything in 3+ hour movie is just bad filmmaking.
In fact I would probably put this movie right down the bottom somewhere of Marty's movies. Its nothing profound, its nothing edgy or stylish, its just disappointing.
The good of the film is surely Leo DiCaprio acting his arse off. He really does some amazingly graphic, slapstick, crazy stuff in this movie and goes for it in full, all the way, all the time. He is by far the best thing of the movie and would have had to have come close to Matthew McConaughey winning Best Actor for this year (who also has a great cameo in this flick). I find it quite amazing he agreed to do some of the things he did in this film actually, and that Marty could ask such a big A list cast member to do them. He is thoroughly entertaining throughout.
Jonah Hill is the other stand out. He plays this perfect mix of totally crazy, over the top, fake try hard brilliantly and I'm finding myself starting to like his acting more and more. He is a really interesting guy picking very different roles and bringing something new to them each time so it'll be good to see what he moves on to from this (now that Scorcese, like, totally thinks he is awesome).
The other point to note is that I didn't know you could show as much sex related stuff in a movie these days and not get it censored off to a padded cell somewhere never to be seen again. Its weird that the excessive amount of totally naked girls, full on sex scenes and innuendo has been approved for this movie, yet in other films has been censored so much more? Maybe its a changing time, maybe its just the weight Marty has in Hollywood, but its interesting in its difference.
This movie is well worth a watch for some of the crazy events and funny scenes that take place, but, you wont be amazed, learn anything or even feel the need to go back and watch it again. Except maybe for the scenes where the Quaaludes kick in! Steeeeevvvveeee Maaaaaaaaadddeeeeeeennnnnnnnnn, haha.
IMDB Info for Wolf of Wall Street
SCORE: 7/10
I'm actually really disappointed in this movie. There was so much potential, and so many great parts to the first half of this movie, I thought I was going to get to see one of the biggest fall from graces ever to be seen in film. Instead I get asked to sell him a pen. What a cop out. What were you thinking Marty? Im not sure what happened during the making of this flick, but you seemed to lose your way and to end up not making a point about anything in 3+ hour movie is just bad filmmaking.
In fact I would probably put this movie right down the bottom somewhere of Marty's movies. Its nothing profound, its nothing edgy or stylish, its just disappointing.
The good of the film is surely Leo DiCaprio acting his arse off. He really does some amazingly graphic, slapstick, crazy stuff in this movie and goes for it in full, all the way, all the time. He is by far the best thing of the movie and would have had to have come close to Matthew McConaughey winning Best Actor for this year (who also has a great cameo in this flick). I find it quite amazing he agreed to do some of the things he did in this film actually, and that Marty could ask such a big A list cast member to do them. He is thoroughly entertaining throughout.
Jonah Hill is the other stand out. He plays this perfect mix of totally crazy, over the top, fake try hard brilliantly and I'm finding myself starting to like his acting more and more. He is a really interesting guy picking very different roles and bringing something new to them each time so it'll be good to see what he moves on to from this (now that Scorcese, like, totally thinks he is awesome).
The other point to note is that I didn't know you could show as much sex related stuff in a movie these days and not get it censored off to a padded cell somewhere never to be seen again. Its weird that the excessive amount of totally naked girls, full on sex scenes and innuendo has been approved for this movie, yet in other films has been censored so much more? Maybe its a changing time, maybe its just the weight Marty has in Hollywood, but its interesting in its difference.
This movie is well worth a watch for some of the crazy events and funny scenes that take place, but, you wont be amazed, learn anything or even feel the need to go back and watch it again. Except maybe for the scenes where the Quaaludes kick in! Steeeeevvvveeee Maaaaaaaaadddeeeeeeennnnnnnnnn, haha.
IMDB Info for Wolf of Wall Street
SCORE: 7/10
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