Leonardo Di Caprio's Best Character Driven Film

Rating: 10/10 (15 April 2014)

The Wolf Of Wall Street is the fifth collaboration between actor Leonardo Di Caprio and director Martin Scorsese.It a black comedy and a character-driven film based on the memoir of Jordan Belfort,a New York stockbroker who ran a firm that is involved in securities fraud and corruption at Wall Street during the 1990's.Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie and Matthew McConaughey co-stars.
The film is similar to many of Scorsese's genre of gangster films such as Goodfellas and The Departed.But this time,we get to see the anti-hero Belfort,played charismatically and excellently by DiCaprio dumping fake stocks that are worth nothing instead of killing and murdering people.Aside from that,it explores Belfort's character,a young Jewish broker from New York looking to make his way in Wall Street.He starts off at J F Rothstein and he is quickly taken into an understudy by lead broker Mark Hanna,who teaches him how to make money without morals and integrity.He then finds himself trading penny stocks and sets up his own operation.As his business grows exponentially,he tries to make it into the legit business which goes awry as they soon find themselves conning thousands of businessmen out of their cash.This leads to an FBI investigation on his part.Aside from his business that consists of greed and scams,we get to see Belfort's lifestyle that is characterized by excess that includes sex,drugs,parties and orgies.
Despite the fact that it is 180-minutes long,one will surely enjoy the ride of watching this film.DiCaprio and Scorsese makes it a point to make it interesting and entertaining.Despite the controversy it has made due to its themes of moral ambiguity and having a lot of amoral characters that are involved in a lot of sex and drugs as well as the constant use of vulgar language,it definitely epitomizes fraud and corruption in Wall Street during the 90's.Although many viewers have seen this film as it somewhat glamorizes Jordan Belfort and his lifestyle,it certainly is one great movie.In the end,this is one great film that will surely be enjoyed by many people.