Way too long & just not very good.

Rating: 3/10 (27 December 2013)

This movie easily could've been edited down to about an hour and a half but even then it would've only been an average movie at best. There are some good individual performances by Jonah Hill, Rob Reiner & newcomer Margot Robbie. In fact, Robbie is so stunning to view at times, it is unnerving that this girl can really act as well.
In the end however, there is not a single main character developed to the point of giving a damn about them. This coupled with the fact that the plot is extremely predictable and linear leaves this movie as a real bust. The scenes of excess go on way too long. We get it and we got it very early on. I kept waiting for a reason to care what happened to these characters and it never happens.
For the life of me, I cannot understand the hype on this one. Yes, it's Scorsese, DiCaprio and Hill, but that shouldn't give them a pass to not entertain us with something other than gratuitous nudity, drug use & profanity. That's just too simple a formula to warrant this kind if critical praise.