Quite good...

Rating: 7/10 (25 April 2015)

I watched this movie with a friend for the first time and actually this is quite a funny one on a dramatic subject if you ask me. Leonardo DiCaprio's acting is quite brilliant throughout all the film. Margot Robbie though is quite reduced to 'invisibility' even if she did influence DiCaprio for the most in his life as a trader. Her dialogues were quite innocuous, short and reduced to the 'wife of' and in that sense I really didn't find her interesting. That said, she is really one beautiful sexy Australian. However, the overall actors were funny, witty and entertaining throughout and were not losing their thread as the movie kept going on.
It is actually quite difficult to judge the story in itself, since, at first it is based on the real life of certain traders and two on the difficulty of judging something for which you have assumptions but no real evidence of. In that sense, I was easy to blow this out of proportion but the movie was able to keep quite a sense of reality. Certain scenes however, hyperbolic, were completely unrealistic e.g. the sex scenes on the working place.
This film could be watched almost as an ex-trader giving an autobiography about the life in Finance, wall-street related to strong drug abuse, utilization as women as objects... since traders in real life do not talk about these kinds of subjects.
The movie though is 'desperately' long and does give the feeling that that you are losing the comedy side of it with time. After a moment me and my friend started watching our watches and telephones because we felt, as a natural reflex, that it was taking forever. Regardless, I really wanted to watch this film and was quite happy that I was able to see it.