Never mind 12 years a Slave; Watch this instead.

Rating: 9/10 (19 January 2014)

The Wolf on Wall Street was beyond spectacular; it was mind blowing. If Leonardo Di Caprio doesn't get this best actor award (even saying this without seeing "Dallas Buyers Club" which isn't out in UK) i will be completely disgusted. He shows absolutely everything in this film. He leaves everything out there; the passion and conviction is astonishing. And the rest of the cast does well to keep up with his perfect performance. It is absolutely contagious; i must have been smiling almost all the way through; one of those ones where you realise you're smiling without knowing so and you feel a tad aware that you may look strange if someone was to look your way. Well that was how it was through 2 hours 30 of the 3 hours. Whichever place Jordan Belfort (Di Caprio) finds himself emotionally sets the pace of the film. If he's upbeat (on a heavy dose of drugs) then the film is upbeat. If he is down (after a heavy dose of drugs) then the films slows. It is intense, hilarious, classy, dirty, controversial, pragmatic yet hectic. It isn't afraid of boundaries; in no way wary of repercussions. It is fearless.
All i have seen for the last month is that a certain "12 Years a Slave" is going to win best film at the Oscars this year. That Chiwetel Ejiofor is favorite for Best Actor. That Steve McQueen may as well polish that mantelpiece of his because there's going to be a Best Director Academy Award placed on it. And after seeing Wolf on Wall Street....well i somehow managed to reserve my judgment and opinion on that and waited until i had seen it.....Well the verdict is in.....
....12 Years a Slave is not deserving of those awards. I normally try to see sense in situations where an award goes to a film/actor to whom i thought it should go elsewhere. For example i thought Best Actor should have went to Joquain Phoenix last year instead of Daniel Day Lewis, but hey Lewis was astonishing as Lincoln, so it was fine. When Argo got film of the year ahead of Django i was a little upset, but then again Django was full of politically incorrect, derogatory remarks and racist dialogue so it couldn't have possibly have won best film......wait ......isn't that what 12 Years a Slave has? Oh but that was based on real events....so of course that MUST win. NO!!!!!
I wouldn't hesitate in giving the 3 awards i mentioned previously directly to The Wolf Of Wall Street. Now i won't jump the gun and say it's "the film of the year" as it is January and let's face it, there's a long way to go , but what i will say is it a welcoming breeze of fresh air in the dusty, rehashed world of movies. Not a remake, not a rip off, not recycled. Just a spectacular example of film making. Thank you Martin Scorsese.