A Brilliant Story Without an End

Rating: 7/10 (24 June 2015)

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio combine again to make another excellent film. DiCaprio plays Jordan Belfort and the story spans the majority of his life. Belfort starts with humble beginnings, but when introduced to the survival of the fittest world of Wall Street he thrives to become the top dog.
Belfort finds the hand over fist way to make money with penny stocks, and gets a group of guys he knows together to start a hedge fund. In the process he links up with Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill) who quickly becomes his right hand man. The story goes on to tell of Belfort's meteoric rise and how the riches enrich his life in all aspects: women, drugs, toys and travels.
When Belfort and company get in trouble with the law the film shows how they try to maneuver around it. I won't go on to spoil anything, but for me the ending lacked a final blow. Scorsese and DiCaprio have come out and said that the final part of the film was to show how it was the common people who are being duped by the likes of Belfort, but it hardly seemed like that was the message.
There have been articles telling of how this movie has spawned a high that some of the young generation are trying to attain. Belfort has become someone you strive to be, and that is exactly what the story isn't about. Hopefully it will be remembered for its true meaning because it truly is a great film.