'The Wolf of Wall Street' is a high-energy rush with a reflective message about America.

Rating: Null/10 (2 June 2014)

Martin Scorsese's 'The Wolf of Wall Street' delivers the world with drugs, sex, greed, humor and a strong message about how we as Americans are always unhappy with what we have and always need more to be satisfied. Leonardo Dicaprio stars as Jordan Belfort, a once calm and quiet guy to a drug-fueled, wealthy stockbroker causing crimes towards his clients in order to become a multi-millionaire. His crimes included stock market manipulation and penny stock scams. Jordan's partner, Donny Azoff (Jonah Hill), is just as greedy and rambunctious. He joins Jordan on his penny stocks, manipulation, prostitutes, drugs, and money. Jonah Hill adds a sense of comedy to fulfill the natural humor of the men's lives, and when tasked to act serious he delivers the performance of his career. Jordan's hot wife Naomi (Margot Robbie) foolishly marries him and gets manipulated as well by Jordan's lifestyle. Terrence Winter's f-bombed filled screenplay is done brilliantly in the narration form. He gives a clear understanding of what life was like for Jordan Belfort , and doesn't add foolish dialogue or unneeded text. Scorsese gives such an energy to this film that it feels like an hour opposed to three hours.He adds partying, intense drugs scenes, sex, comedy, lawbreaking and much more that revolves around the true message of American greed and how we as Americans are unsatisfied with what we have. The similarities between 'The Wolf of Wall Street' and Scorsese's finest picture 'Goodfellas' are incredible. Both stories tackle on the theme of greed, both protagonist are shown in the good and bad times of their activities and the relationships with women, the supporting cast is greatly shown, the protagonist is shown from rise to fall, and the energy and length gives you great vision of the crime in American society. Leonardo Dicaprio delivers a brilliant performance and gets Terrence Winter and Martin Scorsese's message out beautifully. His character is never satisfied with the amount of money he has (even when he is worth millions), isn't satisfied with his multiple women he cheats on, doesn't have the proper amount of drugs, homes, resources, boats, you name it more is never enough, hence the tagline.