Wolf of Wall Street

Actors:  Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Bernthal

Rating:  9 out of 10, The Wolf of Wall Street is the latest Scorsese and Dicaprio effort.  It purports to tell the story of immoral Wall Street schemer Jordan Belfort and doesn’t skimp on the debauchery that permeated his life.  The movie includes three hours of excessive sex, drugs, and criminal over indulgence and I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop where he pays for his crimes but that is kind of glossed over.  It’s pretty entertaining as we see the main character careen through his excesses along with his merry bunch of idiotic enablers.  If we needed another reason to hate Wall Street this movie more than provides that.  All of the acting and direction is top notch although Dicaprio is kind of uneven; so good in some scenes and less so in others.  If you don’t like nudity, swearing, drug use, and general bacchanalia then don’t see this movie.  I liked it a lot better on a second viewing as Scorsese’s point that we all share a little responsibility of allowing this type of idiot to prosper.  He just showed us what we tolerated and asks the question – why?

MVP:  Chandler as the dedicated FBI agent – the only good guy in the entire movie