Movie excellence provides a wolf of a time

Rating: 10/10 (28 January 2014)

This would have to be Scorsese's greatest film, thine far. This is a movie pinnacle of a legendary career of great films. It's all so perfect like a well oiled machine. Here in another Goodfellas, Casino like movie, this time, Leonardo, driving the narrative, in a fantastic portrayal of money hungry, stockbroker/crook Jordan Belfort, in sure fire Oscar Winner mode, we see him quickly ascend to wealth, thanks to the 19th October 87 Wall Street slump. He revamps a chop shop on Long Island, where he basically retrains the employers and installs confidence in them, where soon they're living a dream of excess wealth of oversupplous partying and sex. There's a gluttonous amount of sex in this too, let me warn you, not that I have a problem with that. It's great how Scorsese has made this three hour film and story exciting, throughout, with many great performances, second to Leo's, Jonah Hill, as Belfort's right hand man and best friend, Donnie, and hot and strikingly impressive Margot Robbie from Oz as DeCaprio's new and seductive wife, who causes Hill to sort of unload. Matthew McConaughey has a small an unforgettable role at the start as a Wall Street giant, he truly leaves his mark here, as he's been doing with many other performances nowadays. A much stacked on Jon Favreau is good too. The Wolf Of Wall Street is very funny too, two scenes, one a trademark scene with De Caprio, smooth talking, bribing two FBI men on his boat, the other has a staggering Leo, trying to make it back to his car, after swallowing a Qualude at the Country Club, where the second time recounting, making it home, is not just a surprise, but almost side splitting. Violence runs short, save for two scenes, and there's quite a bit of drug taking, with a few foolish acts at the end of em' as you'll see. Here's one of the best movies I've seen in years, it's frightening to imagine Scorsese bettering this film. There will also be a director's cut, an hour more of extended sex scenes. One can only imagine.