Please Scorsese--hire an editor..

Rating: 4/10 (18 January 2014)

First, the good: DiCaprio does a very good job of portraying a sleazy sociopath. It was truly a great performance.
However, the main problem of this movie was lack of editing. There were way too many scenes in which a point was being made or a mood created-- and this took place in about 20 seconds--a nod to good film making...
...However, these same scenes then droned on and on for, in some cases, over 5 minutes! We get it--he's making a pep-talk speech to his staff-- we got that in the first 15 seconds. But why continue the same rah-rah pep-talk for a full 5 minutes without adding *anything* new??
This was just one example of many scenes that got so stale and I kept thinking--where was the editor? Why didn't he shave a few minutes off these scenes and keep the pace going?
So all in all--I felt what could have been a decent movie was just a long, boring slog.