An irresponsible glorification rather than a satirical take-down.

Rating: 1/10 (21 October 2014)

The film attracted conservative viewers by depicting a more moral tone in its marketing than the film itself depicted.Christina McDowell, daughter of Tom Prousalis (who worked closely with the real-life Belfort at Stratton Oakmont) wrote an open letter addressing Scorsese, DiCaprio, and Belfort himself, criticising the film for insufficiently portraying the victims of the financial crimes created by Stratton Oakmont, for disregarding the damage that was done to her family as a result of such, and for giving celebrity to persons (Belfort and his partners, including her father) who do not deserve it.The story "wants us to be interested in characters who are dull people to start with, made duller by their delusions of being interesting because they are high.An irresponsible glorification rather than a satirical take-down.Ultimately hollow exercise in movie excess. Plays less as an insightful critique and more as an exercise in indulgence. There is no psychological insight, no moral insight, just no insight, full stop. And it palls after a while. It's sick and disturbing in all the wrong ways, rendering this 'Wolf' nothing but a dog.It's not OK to make three hours of graphic sex, epic drug binges, and general debauchery as boring as it is in The Wolf of Wall Street.As a major filmmaker, it's about time Scorsese found some material that stretched his ideas, rather than his audience's patience.As Johnny Rotten famously asked, ever get the feeling you've been cheated?I couldn't buy it, and couldn't wait for the hollow spectacle to end.The weakest movie in Martin Scorsese's fifty-year career, the worst writing Scorsese has ever been associated with.It's showy, but it doesn't amount to much.The characteristic traits build up, intolerably: the grinding pace, the deadening repetition, the pointless wordiness (Terence Winter's screenplay never shuts up), the self-congratulatory yuk-yuks.
Just watch Wall street 1987 , Glengarry Glenross , and Scarface better films and more realistic and far less glamorised.