Great one, with few clichés

Rating: 8/10 (2 January 2014)

Wolf Of Wall Street (English): Well, director Martin Scorcese's magnum opus is indeed an engaging flick undoubtedly with a good narrative, but the director who literally converted the 1962 Satyajit Ray directed Bengali hit "Abhijaan" into the classic "Taxi Driver", this time puts up great amount of "inspirations" from the Mani Ratnam's 2007 Hindi Classic "Guru", despite the film's screenplay based on the book by the same name written by Jordan Belfort. The low points of the film lies in its additional dose of explicit as well as emotional quotient which actually make the film draggy in the second half especially. Rest of all, the film scores because of its screenplay by Terrence Winters which has a good developmental graph and some style factor too, based on the Classic Hollywood style narrative, then comes the production design work by Bob Shaw and Ellen Christiansen who brilliantly showcases the best of the times, then the music score (Various) which have been well placed in the film. Then we have the brilliant characters having grey shades and adding great support to the protagonist and his moves, the comes the splendid performance by Leonardo DiCaprio who carries the film well on his shoulders and he continues his brilliance and then the narration by Scorcese, which makes the film engaging and worth a watch too! My rating would be: 4/5.