We're Wolf Watchers

Rating: 4/10 (18 January 2014)

WOW. Those previews of this movie, The Wolf of Wall Street, couldn't be any more accurate. Basically, it told me all I needed to know: everything.
Upon watching this undeserved Best Picture Nominated movie, I couldn't believe my eyes. There wasn't an unpredictable part of this movie, as predicted by the movie's trailer. I take that back. I did not predict that this THREE HOUR MOVIE would have a good hour of cut'able footage.
I could've easily sliced out an hour of unneeded and obvious footage in the movie and even though the remaining two hours still wouldn't be fresh by any means, at least the audience didn't have to waste three hours on the same ole story – they just had to waste two.
Let's see: Young hotshot wants to make it big for him and his wife. He's still wet behind the ears, but dives right into the greed of Wall Street and makes his own mark after a speed bump derails him temporarily. He's – get this! – consumed by the money, power, girls, drugs and luxury. Oh, no! What will ever become of him?
Supposedly, though probably, true, this rise and fall story is so blatantly obvious from the get-go, you'll wonder why you need to see another 2 hours, 59 minutes of the story you already know how will unravel from minute one.
Granted, the performances are decent – no, it wasn't Leo's best, and the film was professionally made, I just could never get past the A-B-C story of the Rise-and-Fall of the greedy. Nothing new was brought to the table with the exception of a few jokes and scenes so extended that they should've been in the extended cut BluRay and not in the original cut.
While absolutely not a waste of time or film – it does boast the most F-bombs that you're sure to become immune to – it's so old, you'd think you're watching a "true story" of the old west.
* * * Final thoughts: How this got an R-Rating for this extreme amount of nakedness, sexuality, language, violencemakes me wonder who owns the MPAA. Especially when But I'm a Cheerleader almost got an NC-17 rating because it involved lesbians but not 1/1000th of the debauchery here.