Great, but hard to believe performances in a film a bit too long

Rating: 8/10 (15 January 2014)

DiCaprio and especially Jonah Hill produce career best work in a fast paced film that once again exposes the evils of Wall Street. The main criticisms of Wolf are it being too long and repetitive. I mean how much and how many drugs can a person take at one time to not die? This films tries to show that. It should have been at least 30 minutes shorter.
Scorsese tells the story as he did in the Goodfellas, with an off screen narrative. Yet, he fails, in his wrap-up, to show what happened to Jonah Hill's character. And in one serious script error, when DiCaprio's wife is leaving him, he says your not taking my children. Yet, we only ever see or hear of one young daughter.
It would be nice to see films once in awhile that aren't about criminal types...but about people who become wealthy honestly...we had the Social Network...How about the Bill Gates story? But, maybe they're just too boring. Crooks are so much more fun.