A long winded Wall Street exploitation flick

Rating: 5/10 (28 December 2013)

I like movies like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Scarface and Wall Street. That doesn't mean I like to see it all combined into a movie that is basically an exploitation flick showing Wall Street guys getting "fucked up".
Essentially this film is about ruthlessness and decadence and very little else. There are no sympathetic characters, there is no moral dilemma, no twists and not even a real story.
DiCaprio is great and all the other actors are pretty great too and you will enjoy the first half of the movie, laughing about all the crazy things they do. Then you will feel that you just see more crazy "fucked up" things and not much else. Even when the FBI closes in on DiCaprio's character, you don't feel tension, you don't feel sorry for him, nor do you feel satisfaction that he is punished.
So, I'm all in for the absurd humor of this flick, but it could have been done in half the time. Yet even then it still lacks any emotional anchors for the audience and when the credits roll you just don't care. That can't be what they had in mind...