This movie is painfully boring porn

Rating: 1/10 (15 April 2014)

I was really excited to go see Wolf of Wall Street, because I absolutely loved Catch Me if You Can. I could not have been more disappointed. Both movies feature Leo DeCaprio playing a real-life criminal genius. In Catch Me if You Can, the clever details of his schemes are explored to the point that you can really identify with him and other characters while learning some history and party tricks. Leonardo's character in Catch Me if You Can was also a genius criminal mastermind in real life, but you'd never know it from the movie in which his flat character does nothing but make interminable uninspiring speeches, get high, and mistreat women. Occasionally you think the movie is about to tell you some interesting details about what sort of trading actually happened, and then Leo's narration stops abruptly with some lame line like "oh, but you don't want to hear about that, you want to hear about midget tossing." There is no opportunity to learn any facts from this movie whatsoever. The director's complete disregard for integrity of the true story could not be more clear than in the "helicopter falling off the boat" and "exploding plane" scenes. Worst of all, there was a real opportunity to expose the horrific treatment of women that occurred in this story, but instead it is glorified. As a 27-year old male, I enjoy beautiful female bodies, but the women in this movie were used as nothing but the butt of the director's jokes. None of their characters had any depth, and the movie did not even come close to passing the Bechdel test. I almost walked out halfway through, and I wish I had.