Soft porn version of Wall Street, minus all the interesting stuff

Rating: 1/10 (2 July 2017)

I am so glad I rented this from the library and didn't waste one red cent on it!
This "movie" is basically Girls Gone Wild on steroids in a corporate office setting. I suppose they intended to make an updated version of Wall Street, but one that was "edgier" and "harder" for contemporary audiences, loaded to the gills with profanity, full frontal nudity, and endless obsessive drug use. Unfortunately, all of that extra shock and titillation came at the expense of any plot or storyline.
Belfort himself starts off as apparently trying to be an honest stockbroker, but is instantaneously seduced to the dark side by Matthew Mcconaughey, and with that, his character development is done. Literally. For the next three hours, you get to see him and his equally irredeemable cohorts do drugs and hookers, drugs and hookers, more drugs and more hookers.
You're never told how he makes his fortunes. Actually, he starts to tell you how his nefarious schemes worked, and you actually start to pay attention for once, but then he literally stops mid-sentence and says awww you're not interested in that, it's too complicated anyway (seriously!). Along the way, you are treated to at least 3 or 4 Gordon Gecko pep rally-type speeches (but not as good), which eventually just become repetitiously boring. Literally, if you story-boarded this "movie", it would look like: drugs and hookers - speech - drugs and hookers - speech - drugs and hookers - speech, et cetera.
In the end, he gets caught, but you're not sure how, or for what, but at least you can breathe a sigh of relief that the "movie" is almost over. In the last scene, Belfort becomes a Zig Ziglar type, not only not ashamed of what he's done, but exploiting his past to keep on exploiting the present. The guy is a convicted fraudster, and yet people supposedly pay money and pack lecture halls to learn from him how to "sell"? I seriously hope the filmmakers just made that part up.
There's no story to remember, no lessons to be learned, no characters that get their comeuppance, no victims who see justice done. If you watch this "movie" all the way through, you'll feel as used up as a hooker and as wrung out as a drug addict. If this "movie" is a comedy, the joke is on us the audience.
Post-script: Scorsese is supposed to be a great director, but I'm sensing a theme of his 'greatest' films: constantly upping the shock factor. Whether it's blood and violence like Taxi Driver or Goodfellas, or now this soft porn garbage, I'm starting to see this guy as nothing more than a self-absorbed shock artist.