Powerhouse Movie from De Caprio and Scorsese !!!!!

Rating: 9/10 (13 January 2014)

Martin Scorsese has always had an obsession with Robert De Niro initially as they have done 8 movies together and now the same continues with Leonardo Di Caprio, with the recent outing The Wolf of Wall Street being the fifth collaboration of Scorsese and Di Caprio.
Scorsese's movies always have adapted the Narrative Style Screenplay maximum rather the Linear Screenplay where either the Protagonist or any other character associated to the story begins the narration. Raging Bull (1980), GoodFellas (1990), Casino (1995) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) come under the Narrative Style Screenplay category.
To begin with, The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) is based on the true life incidents of Jordan Belfort, a New York stockbroker who comes to Wall Street in aim of making it big with money and finally ends traveling in path of greed and lust while creating his own stock broking company using all fraudulent methods to make quick money. This movie narrates his story of rise, downfall and salvation for his crimes. The biggest USP of this movie is its protagonist Leonardo Di Caprio who has not only acted, but lived the character of Jordan Bel fort in the movie and has completely shouldered the movie with his charismatic and riveting performance. His character is portrayed with sheer finesse from the scene where Jordan begins the narration of this story to the last scene where he begins his reformation.
The scenes where Jordan first tricks a customer to invest for a fake company, the way he trains his new recruits on how to defraud the customers into investing to rob of their money and notably the complete scene sequence where the highly drugged Jordan reaches to his come from the country club to avoid getting caught by the police have been stunningly enacted by De Caprio, making this his career best performance.
Scorsese has also done a brilliant job of extracting the required performances from the supporting cast which includes Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill, Rob Reiner, Kyle Chandler, Jean Dujardin and Jon Favreau makes a small cameo appearance. This movie has many scenes involving sexual content, excessive drug usage and its aftermaths and abusive language embedded in the dialogs of the movie and due to which this movie has been rated 'A' for viewing.
You may have slight nostalgic feel from Scorsese's movie Casino, as some of the character references and their portrayal seems to be have been inspired from this movie. In Casino, Sam Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro) runs a Casino illegally with him being unlicensed whereas, Jordan in the Wolf of Wall Street runs a fake firm to make money in quick time. Ginger (Sharon Stone) in Casino is portrayed as a greedy, money loving and drug addicted character who aims at living a luxurious life rather than a responsible one and here Jordan takes the same role with the similar character shades in him with money addiction and excessive drug usage playing killjoy. If it's Nicky (Joe Pesci) in Casino, then it's Donnie (Jonah Hill) in The Wolf of Wall Street and the characters played by them in both movies have similar shades. If you are curious to know more, watch them both.
Overall this movie is a Must watch for fans of Leonardo Di Caprio and a Highly Recommended Must Watch for fans of Art House Cinema and especially Ace Director Martin Scorsese.