not that funny, not that great, not that bad...

Rating: 1/10 (2 February 2014)

Plot: 5/10. Average. That same story has been told, written and recorded 1000 times before but with different characters. Most of the times the outcome is better than 'Wolf': A struggling mid-class Average Joe dives into illegal games in order to escape his financial shackles, at first he seems successful, then he succumbs into excess an debauchery and finally he gets caught by his own game and ends up in jail. Better examples of this exact same plot are: 'Scarface' (1983), 'Carlito's Way' (1993), 'Blow' (2001), 'The Queen of Versailles' (2012) and even DiCaprio's 'Catch me if You Can' (2002).
Narration: 3/10. Bad. The story was on speed while the visual narration was choppy. Dialogues constantly crashed into each other or into shopped down scenes that played some kind of nonsense 'strobber' action. The story was too long, to discontinuous, full of unnecessary details and lacking essential info about the characters, their personal life and theirs business. The constant soft-porn and drug scenes added nothing to the story (but the girls where actually cute). Leo's (Jordan's) off-voice narration was totally expendable. The visual narration of this film may serve young directors as a catalog of all of Hollywood's clichés in a single film.
Sound: 5/10. Average. While the music score was great, the audio mixing and the dialogs where terrible. The constant breaking, hitting, crashing and thrashing along with the excessive screaming followed or preceded by whisperings have a very unbalanced outcome in the audio levels.
Characters: 5/10. Average. I generally like Leonardo's acting and what it ads to the films but in this case not.. Probably the shallowness of his character didn't help him because there are no real insights into his internal emotions and sufferings. In general, the characters in this film have no evolution, they are the same at the end as they where when they first appeared and it is safe to say that there really is no other important character other than Jordan, it feels like all of the others are fillers.
After all it is not that funny, not that great and not that bad... just below average and in my opinion anything below average is bad. Im glad I didn't pay for this, otherwise i'd be really upset.