Why the many bad reviews? A terrific movie, if you can handle how crazy the world is that we live in.....

Rating: 9/10 (30 November 2014)

I was very excited to watch this film. I have been a huge Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio fan for many years now. I love the fact that Scorsese uses the same leading actor in many of his great films because he truly knows brilliance when he sees it. All throughout the 80's and 90's we saw the brilliant performances of Robert DeNiro in his films, and today we are treated with DiCaprio's captivating performances. This film met all of my expectations and believe me I went in with very high expectations. Before watching this movie I read some of the user reviews and I saw a lot of 1 out of 10 ratings, many were saying how this movie is a huge pile of you know what..... I couldn't believe it.
A large number of people said that the plot was horrible and this whole movie only glorifies greed, sex, drugs, and narcissism. What I have to say to these people is WAKE UP!!!! What kind of world do you think you live in?!?! This is the America that we all helped create because for so many years we all secretly wanted to become just like "The Wolf". We all dream of accumulating vast sums of wealth because it is fun to think about what we would do with all the money. Have it be used for noble causes or not so noble causes...greed lies in the hearts of us all, and it drives some of us further than others.
THIS is the world we live in and the people depicted in the movie are the people who run it! This movie isn't supposed to have a moment where the main character realizes how terrible a person he is and tries to reconcile, and repent for all his "sins". This is because he isn't like your average person which is why I'm sure not many people liked this character or the film. The Wolf is someone that that a very small percentage of us can relate to. Ever heard the saying "the rich are different"...
Scorsese is pulling back the curtain on the real Wall Street... it's a world full of cutthroats, backstabbers, sociopaths, drug addicts, and eccentric a$$holes. They will sell their friends out and do terrible things not only to themselves but to their families as well. Just take a look at the competitiveness when you see the scenes of employee's on the phone screaming orders and pleading with people to give them their hard earned money. We all dream of being as rich as these people but a lot of us don't realize what strings come along with all that wealth. Notice how many drugs Leo's character was on, and that was a daily morning routine for him... he named off at least 7 different drugs that he takes to get him through the day ranging from cocaine, to aderall, to xanax, to morphine!!! morphine!? These guys are high energy, high octane all the time and they have to be in order to survive. That's why so many of these people die at such an early age, their hearts simply can't handle it. It really is a sad world that these characters live in...
For all of those saying that the acting was terrible I simply have no idea how you came to that conclusion. I feel that everyone involved in this movie did a tremendous job. People were saying that there was no depth to the characters, well did anyone ever think that maybe because these characters aren't supposed to have depth because in real life they are the shallowest humans on the face of the earth? All they care about is money and that is the only thing that drives them... so why would there be much depth to them. Again I am really hammering this point that the Wolf is nothing like you or I. He doesn't care about jail time or how many of his friends he sells out. The only thing driving him is wealth. You have to give him credit, although he is a scam artist... he didn't get his millions by simply snapping his fingers. He is an excellent sales men and was obviously a hard worker to get to where he was. We all have that ambition inside of us but the Wolf took a chance and excelled to the next level partially on luck and partially on his own skill.
Like it or not people this is the "American Dream" and I'm sorry that too many people were ashamed to see real life on the big screen. I feel that this movies main point was just to give us a glimpse of what people on Wall Street are all about. They don't give a sh** about you or your stocks!!! They care about making money, and I know its hard for us because these people are essentially playing with our 401K's and our retirement funds.... but at the end of the day they get richer and we somehow end up getting screwed. They party as hard as possible because they are above the law... they do easy time when caught and when released they go back to that same life. While the average person gets the hardest jail time and when released their lives are ruined. We aren't supposed to fully understand motives or why these people turned out the way they did. The fact is that we let horrible people control our financial institutions and we just live with it. A good wake up call for the public and a great film overall!