Lazy - Scorsese's efforts or lack thereof, writing, screenplay. continuity, research, believability - everything was done on a lazy level. Shame on Hollywood once again.

Rating: 2/10 (20 April 2014)

So much was wrong about this 'film' that I was left feeling abused intellectually and ripped off for the $1.50 I paid for the Redbox rental. Matthew McConaughey's worst part and performance - was totally beyond believable. The dialog during a meeting at a restaurant when he explains how to make money in the stock market was empty and made no sense and was allowed as a plausible, albeit deceitful, business model. The amount of Quaalude's supposedly taken was not scientifically possible. But that is only one or two of the many, many believability factor fails that leaves anyone above high school level life experience, feeling violated. So that I do not waste anymore precious time on this awful rip-off story all about ripping people off, I am here in a humane effort to save others the pain. Imagine - if you will - a movie in which a 'stock broker/swindler cons a 'mark' over a speaker-phone out of thousands of dollars while the entire office staff ( 40+? ) stand directly behind him and laugh and cheer. We are made to believe that DiCaprio's character simply holding his finger to his lips occasionally is sufficient to have us, the ultra-gullible audience, accept that the
the speaker phone being used , is somehow able to filter out laughter ! Please Hollywood - Please Viewing Audience - if we lower the bar any further it will be grounded. Stop insulting our intelligence and throwing the bulk of the production budget on over-rated talent at the expense of all else. This was an epic failure and a puzzle as to it's high ratings.