Stale and Tired

Rating: Null/10 (21 December 2013)

The story has been told before. The style has been used before. There is nothing new here. "The Wolf of Wall Street" is not a badly mad film, rather the movie is stale and tired 5 minutes into its 3-hour run.
That Scorsese cannot find a more mature subject matter than greed, sex, and drugs is a little sad. With those themes for a plot, why not just make porn. The audience would be wider, and the profits greater.
As for being a dark comedy, that might be a tough sell, give that comedy tends to be more individualized and subjective than drama. Perhaps I am just getting too old to find humor in debauchery. However, I did laugh out loud once during the park bench scene between Leonardo DiCaprio and Joanna Lumley. Now *that* woman knows how to deliver a comedic line.
I did not hate the movie, but I did not love it. It was okay. If you have nothing better to do on a winter's day, go see it. There are worse ways to waste your time.