Pick a Freakin' Genre!

Rating: 1/10 (28 January 2014)

I wanted to like this movie, I really did. Leonardo DiCaprio has been epic in his previous movies, and had done Gatsby so much wonderful credit from the book I couldn't help but to wonder if he himself was a fan. After King of Wallstreet, and the high reviews this movie had received, I was excited and I really, really wanted to like this movie. I walked away feeling as if I had wasted not just the price of a movie ticket, but a painful, excruciatingly long 180 minutes of my time that felt closer to 300 minutes.
Not only did this movie utterly fail in knowing when to cut things off (there were multiple times in the movie I expected the next scene to conclude the story, only to be dragged through more scenes that weren't needed), but it couldn't seem to decide what it wanted to be. The humor is a wash between slapstick, big-lipped alligator moments, god-awful prejudice against an assortment of groups, with a bit of witty commentary on the ridiculousness of the stock market and what big suckers most buyers are. Just a bit though, after all, let's not take things too seriously since there's drug addiction, adultery, and idiocy galore! I had suspected that some fridge logic was involved in all this since there was just enough wit to keep me in my seat. I felt like despite the movie's horrendous length, maybe I had missed something in the storyline that would wrap everything up in such a way as to explain the high rating and reviews and that this would be brilliant. Well, weeks later, I'm still left feeling utterly at a lost at how this movie is still rated so high. I'm starting to think that the movie industry is beginning to be plagued by what I lovingly refer to as the "Napolean Dynamite Desease", where a movie falls so short of a delivery and yet is rated at such critical acclaim. Hell, at least Napolean Dynamite had some okay quotes to make up for its anticlimatical ending. Wolf of Wallstreet just left me feeling empty inside. The only saving grace was the bit of comedy that didn't go so deep into the utterly ridiculous that it was actually funny.
If you want to waste your time and money on this excuse to throw midgets around, go right ahead. Give me King of Wallstreet any day of the week.