Trash.

Rating: 1/10 (4 March 2014)

A hero movie about a person who never did a heroic thing in his life. With a very specific target audience defined by the belief that alcohol, drugs and misogyny are ~forbidden pleasures~. A compensation tale of debauchery utterly lacking the promised cautionary element. The movie basically affirms all about the characters and their lifestyle. 'Cause it's all a harmless joke and so much fun, right?
Trigger warning for unacknowledged rape.
(More specifically, the movie absolutely makes you root for Belfort. Leonardo DiCaprio's superb acting turns him into a likable character. The rare moments of seeming irony are so far between and so ambiguously depicted that they needn't be acknowledged, unless you are writing the most generous review of a film undeserving of generosity. It's a fist-person POV story. Of course, Belfort likes himself. But so will we if the movie has anything to say about it. No victims make an appearance to tilt the movie's skewed valued system in the right direction. It's all about money, drugs and sex objects.)