'Wolf of Wall Street' Is Brilliant For All Three Hours!

Rating: 10/10 (24 March 2014)

One of my all-time favorite movies is "GoodFellas", one of my all-time favorite directors is Martin Scorsese and one of my all-time favorite actors are Leonardo DiCaprio. I enjoyed "Gangs of New York", "Shutter Island" and "The Departed", but this movie knocks those out of the park.
Leonardo DiCaprio is Jordan Belfort, a young broker who starts scamming people into buying penny stocks and eventually becomes one of the biggest names on Wall Street. That is, until, his life comes crumbling down.
I could sum up the movie in one word: Brilliant. This movie is disgusting, sexist and offensive, but it is also down-right hysterical. In fact, there is one scene with Leonardo DiCaprio reacting to the side effects of a drug that had me holding my sides because I was laughing so hard.
DiCaprio gives the best performance of his career in this movie. He is funny, interesting and completely over-the-top as Belfort. Also giving the best performance of his career is Jonah Hill, playing Donny, Belfort's right-hand man. He is just as funny and interesting as Belfort.
The supporting cast is great, too, with Rob Reiner, Jon Favreau, Ethan Suplee, Christine Ebersole, Jean Dujardin and Matthew McConaughey in small, but interesting and well-performed roles. In fact, Matthew McConaughey steals the scenes he's in, too bad he's only in the first fifteen minutes of this 182-minute film.
Yes, this movie is over three hours long, and sometimes that bothers me. Did it bother me here? No, because I was into the story, which is actually a true story.
A fair warning: This movie is rated R, but frequently pushes the boundaries of how far an R-rating will go. I have no idea how Scorsese escaped an NC-17. I mean, for the love of God, there's two graphic scenes of an orgy (One is a gay orgy), a man's genitalia, DiCaprio doing cocaine off a hooker's ass and almost every female in this movie is either a drug dealer, prostitute or a naked, blonde girl.
Despite that, I loved this movie. It's brilliant, awesome, hilarious and now, one of my all-time favorites. See it, in fact, see it twice, if you are willing to watch a three-hour movie.