A.C.’s Review: Anyone going into see this film
should be cautioned that it is going to be one of the most graphic films you
will ever see in a mainstream theater when it comes to sex, language and drug
use.
Chronicling the real life tale of
Jordan Belfort a notorious Wall Street stockbroker and his merry bank of
co-conspirators as they rise from humble beginnings of a brokerage set up in an
old garage to a sprawling Wall Street office. Their rise comes on the back of selling
worthless penny stocks to gullible working men and the wealthy alike. Devoid of
any scruples or morals the brokers new found wealth opens up a world of
unlimited sex and drugs. Prostitutes and snorting cocaine are frequent sights
around the office as the millions keep rolling in. As Belfort’s quest for wealth
escalates his ordinary wife is soon left in the dust for a new wife who looks
like a supermodel (but that doesn’t stop his dallying with hookers) and things
become even more outrageous eventually catching the eye of the FBI.
The last half of the movie is the FBI’s
efforts to bring Belfort to justice and cage the Wolf of Wall Street in federal
prison but the FBI meets it’s match in the cunning Belfort.
This movie is not for everyone.
Numerous reports from theaters have the elderly walking out in the first 15
minutes (Belfort is shown snorting coke of the naked body of a call girl where
on her body I won’t say). Also it’s three hours long. Leonard DiCaprio gives an
Oscar worthy performance though so it’s worth seeing it for that.
Best Scene: Belfort matching wits with an unscrupulous Geneva banker where he has gone to hide his illicit gains in a Swiss bank.
A.C.’s Rating: Best saved as a DVD rental to watch in your own home.
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