Ridiculously boring

Rating: 1/10 (2 March 2014)

I was intending to say a lot of things about this movie (my first review on IMDb and it turns out the spell checker on here thinks I've spelt the word 'movie' incorrectly....it also thinks I've spelt IMDb incorrectly and for some reason won't let me change the 'b' to a capital no matter how many times I edit and Preview) but it seems like luci1977 (and a few others) have already covered most of what I was going to say.
So rather than re-iterate what luci1977 already said (and I encourage you to read his/her review), I shall simply add to it.
3 hours for a movie should in theory be long enough to cover a lot of things but unfortunately for this movie, so little was. Now at this point, I must admit that I only watched the first one hour of this movie. I simply couldn't bring myself to watch the rest and here's why. Within the first 5 minutes, the movie paints a reasonably good picture for the viewer in terms of what it's about, namely drugs, money, swindling and prostitutes. Between the first 5 minutes and the first 60 minutes however, nothing new happens. There's barely a plot and little or no character development. So does the movie get better after the first one hour? I obviously wouldn't know and moreover, that's irrelevant. For most movies, the plot would be thicker than a milkshake after the first one hour and the story would be heading towards some sort of climax. For all I know, this movie could very well have become interesting after the first one hour but I couldn't forgive it for wasting an hour of my life and I didn't allow it to (possibly) redeem itself.
The narration is another thing that gets on your nerve. Clearly it was important to have constant narration to provide extra information to the viewer. Clearly, 3 hours of screen time was not enough. But does it in fact provide additional information? No. The narration is as pointless as the movie itself. Every now and then, you might hear the voice of Leo say something along the lines of "we were having the time of our lives". One would think that snorting cocaine with a 100 dollar note off the body of a high class prostitute would be quite self-explanatory but I suppose the makers of the film obviously thought otherwise.
There was however one thing this film did well with its long run time and constant narration. It brought back memories of another one of Martin Scorsese's movies: Goodfellas. Unfortunately, The Wolf of Wall Street lacks one key ingredient that Goodfellas (and any other half descent movie) possesses: a point.