Scorcese's The Real Wolf!

Rating: 1/10 (12 December 2014)

Is this what has become of us? Hucksters in the White House and overrated shnooks getting nominated for movie awards for peddling garbage? Come on people, we are better than this.
Why is slamming people over the head with lowest common denominator, repetitive, clichéd crap considered "talent?" I hate all that Scorcese New York corruption filth that glorifies the lifestyle. Is that all he knows about? That fat kid Hill is overexposed. So is that Johnny One-Note McConaughey guy. Give me a break. Leonardo has some basic talent, but needs a decent vehicle. Stop going for the blockbuster crap and try a small film Leo.
They could have approached this story various ways. I didn't read that idiot's book, but I'll assume he was bragging or trying to sell more books by including all the partying.
The decision to do it as an over-the-top pseudo comedy was probably a mistake. People are hungry for some soulful insight into the human condition during these hard economic times.
Even if you want to stick with the partying aspect of the story, you can do it in a shorter, less repetitive version.
As other reviewers mentioned, we get no character development, no view of the victims, which at least Boiler Room gave us, and no portrayal of normal brokers who aren't dirty, unless I missed that part.
I believe that Scorcese and his ilk wanted to make sweeping statements about Wall Street from a liberal perspective. But neither him nor Oliver Stone ever bother to show the Ham and Eggs brokers who just do a solid job and help their clients. What do uneducated penny stock pushers on Long Island have to do with Wall Street anyways? He was out of Manhattan already after the first half hour of the film.
Scorcese is the Wolf by peddling crap and marketing it as gold. He's appealing to your baser instincts in order to make a buck for himself and his creepy cronies.
Keep yourself and your kids away from this worthless waste of time.