Magnificent Work from Everyone Involved,

Rating: 9/10 (18 February 2014)

The Wolf of Wall Street is a fantastic movie with a very well well developed storyline, an outstanding cast and very impressive character development. Its an unexpected film from both Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio to do, it's absolute filth without a doubt and has an 18 rating for a reason, but I think exploring these dark themes captured the true story of Jordan Belfort in a very realstic way, it took you deep in to his life in an intense manner to convey to the audience how surreal it really was, they were given creative freedom to do whatever they wanted and they certainly use this to full effect, without sugarcoating anything. There isn't a single performance in this movie I didn't enjoy, everyone gives it their all, DiCaprio delivers one of the highlights of his career, Jonah Hill's performance was definitely the funniest, and he has also has many intense and dramatic scenes where he proves once again that he can do serious roles and go beyond comedies like Superbad or 21 Jump Street. Margot Robbie was also one of the best actors on this film, she is very new to Hollywood but she seemed very confident, she is a very promising young actress who has a great career ahead of her. Matthew McConaughey also does a great job, he has been proving lately that he really can act in some big and challenging roles, he is in this movie for a very short period, but it's one of the best few minutes of the whole film and sets the tone perfectly, would have loved to have seen more of Mark Hanna, it says on the trivia that he spent two more years working with Belfort, sadly that didn't happen in this film, which I think would have been great to give him more screen time, his performance was outstanding. The only real problem I have with this movie is that the characters are very unlikeable, although this did make sense, we could have had some moments where we sympathised with them, and also it is a little bit longer than it really needs to be. Wolf of Wall Street is an outstanding movie that I would recommend to all moviegoers of a certain age.
Follows the true story of Jordan Belfort as he rises to power in Wall Street and turns in to a corrupt criminal in the process, dragging his company and everyone involved down with him.
Best Performance: Leonardo DiCaprio Worst Performance: Christina Jeffs