3 hours well spent for a true Scorsese fan - a visual and vocal treat!

Rating: 9/10 (12 January 2014)

Let me start by saying that this movie is great - but you need to be a fan of Mr. Scorsese's cinema to enjoy something like this for 3 hours. The difference between a Scorsese movie and just another good movie is that Scorsese won't stop short of depicting the real truth (no matter how visual or vocal it might be) on the big screen.
This is in-your-face cinema for people who love to be very close to "what really happened". I believe that Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio was a great choice to play Jordan Belfort, a common man who is hungry for success and money is the drug that functions best for his system. Mr. Scorsese's gets the best out of DiCaprio and he excels in his role, all the way from amazing scenes where he is giving a speech to make his firms employees feel motivated, to the scenes where too many drugs are in his system while he needs to get behind the wheel. It looks so real that I felt that he needs to actually have drugs in his system to act that way.
Apart from DiCaprio, Margot Robbie looks stunning as she plays the role of Belfort's wife.
Don't think twice before going to this one is you are a fan of Mr. Scorsese's cinema such as Goodfellas. Avoid it if you don;t want to hear the F word like a million times and watch sexually explicit content - but in short - that's what makes it real.
9/10 without a doubt!