Enjoyable but

Rating: 7/10 (1 April 2015)

Let me start by saying I love Martin Scorsese' work as a director - Mean Streets, Taxi Driver even his Boardwalk Empire episodes! But, and it's quite a BIG but, he has made the same film THREE times.
#1 Goodfellas; man starts from nothing rises through the mob, becomes wealthy, marries a nut-job woman and ultimately rats out his close friends.
#2 Casino; pretty much the same as above but set in Las Vegas.
#3 Wolf of Wall Street; exactly the same as the other two but with Leo as the lead instead of Ray Liotta/De Niro and it's set in New York (more or less).
An enjoyable watch but I found myself drawing parallels with his previous outings almost straight from the off, although unfortunately it is nowhere near as successful as the other two. It glamourises ripping people off and the use of drugs (which I have no issue with in films) but in this instance the volume of numb nuts who will watch this and think it's "amazing" only because of the drug use, cos drugs are cool kids.
Apart from the previously stated my underlying annoyance with this film is the dumbing down of how corrupt, evil and disgusting the snakes and pigs of Wall Street actually are and turning them into cool, hip and funny "lads" that I'm afraid is wrong in my eyes.
Despite all of the negativity I've discussed it serves it's purpose as being an entertaining film but be warned if you have seen Goodfellas and Casino you will find nothing new here whatsoever and if you haven't seen either of them I beg you, just watch Goodfellas!