Overrated

Rating: 5/10 (4 December 2017)

When you go to a Martin Scorsese film, you expect a lot of things: memorable dialogue, great music, a sense of time and place, and a cast of great actors in top form. On paper, Wolf of Wall Street delivers all these things, but something is missing. There is no heartbeat pulling you through this story. It's just scene after scene of excess, drugs, and sex. I'm no prude, I just want more from this story. Is this all there is? If it's simply a commentary on hedonistic 80's Wall Street, that could have been done in 90 minutes. This is a 3 hour film.
TLDR: See Goodfellas instead.