Roller-coaster ride through the secondary wall street!

Rating: 9/10 (6 January 2014)

Martin Scorsese's craft is unmatched and he has done it time and again reinventing the protagonists in their career best powerful performances. Obviously, when you have Jack Nicholson as The Departed lead, then the comparisons are pale, but when he picks Leo or Ray Liottas of the world, rest ensured, he is going to secrete the maximum outta lead roles. Going into theater, I had good background information being through with Wall St brokering and trading rooms myself as well Boiler Rooms functioning. I had a decent idea about Belfort's history too and his past and present situations. However, if I just consider this movie from the fictional point of view, I must say its quiet believable but when I correlate the movie in a toned down real events version, I would say, the situations depicted are massively outrageous. And all of this anchored on the towering performance by Leo.
Movie starts with Belfort's firm's teaser and is intelligently interwoven with past and present instances. Standing at shy of 3 hours duration, the movie only gets better and better as the time progresses and it is hard to take your eyes off the screen. Best parts of the movie for me were when Belfort addresses this staff on his firm's floor on multiple instances. Screenwriter for this movie researched on Belfort, and put him in a room full of Scorsese's crew to assess the hold of the people Belfort has, that is exactly what has transcended in the performance delivered by Leo during these scenes and its, to say the least, gripping.
I am amazed by the performance delivered by Jonah too. He has come a long way from being a rookie performer to a neck to neck performance with lords of the craft. Maybe it is Scorsese effect. Or may be he is getting better too. However, despite the controversies movie is going through, it is a must watch just for the sake of the career best performance by Leo. Rest of the story kinda ultra exaggerates the spiraling out lifestyle portrayed by quick money makers on Wall St. If you really are looking to learn the nuances and inside story of Wall St from 'this' movie, you might be in a wrong theater. ]\