Disappointment...

Rating: 5/10 (6 January 2014)

The movie is a major disappointment to DiCaprio's fans. It does highlight the life of the famous stockbroker Jordan Belfort and the ease of corruption within the walls of Wall Street firms. However, the plot is very weak -superficial- and I am pretty sure it could have been done better. Martin Scorsese did nothing creative, no twists or even focusing on the main points. Sometimes you are lost in the events that you forget about the movie and what it represents. It could have been better by focusing on the process of corruption and its implications, but the director chose to focus more about Belfort's personal life, which is logical as the movie is based on Belfort's own memoirs "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "Catching the Wolf of Wall Street." As for DiCaprio himself, he did an awesome job as usual. His speeches were sincere -however sometimes overacted. Surprisingly, I will be disappointed if he wins the Academy Award this year for his role. DiCaprio was excellent and everything, but I will be disappointed that he won it for that specific movie. The scene when he was high on "Lemmon 714" is unnecessarily elongated, and for sometime I felt like I was watching a low-budget comedy movie. Overall the movie is good, but not as expected. I would advise you to watch the movie just to have an idea about how corrupted financial firms of Wall St. can be, and how ugly it can get drowning in your lust and greed.