A patchwork of tedious clichés

Rating: 3/10 (22 May 2014)

The film is too long ( 3 hours ) and these hours are filled with clichés and predictable outcomes. There is almost no psychology and none of the characters, including the main one, is developed and interesting in any way. The whole story is commonplace and it is not worth making into a film at all. We have dozens of repetitive situations –drugs, sex, drugs, sex etc. which soon become horribly boring. We see neither the way of cheating, nor the victims of these schemes, not even the way the authorities fight against them. I have the feeling that the whole film somehow glamorizes this way of life and this system of values by giving them too much time and attention. And there are absolutely no alternative characters and lifestyles shown. Are ALL people on Wall street like that? I do not believe it. What irritated me most of all is the almost obsessive repetition of the word "f**k " and its derivatives. It is repeated every two minutes or so, in every phrase by every character. It will be very interesting to see some statistics about how many utterances of the word there were in the film. Maybe 200-300 at least! Including this one: "I f**king love you! " This is plain stupid! At the end of the film I was bored to death and I must admit that I skipped some episodes at the end out of boredom. I have the feeling of having wasted 3 hours for almost nothing.