![]() ![]() You will also laugh your bollocks off and it will want to make you throw Academy Awards at everyone involved, particularly Leo. It is a modern classic that challenges you right in the morals. It’s so much more than a bog-standard rise-and-fall story (although with Scorsese behind the camera, those are also wonderful). It’s wonderfully shot with bright cinematography and snappy editing with skills to pay the bills. He also surprises everyone with a superb turn at physical comedy – particularly during his and Jonah Hill’s fight scene on Quaaludes (think Ketamine).īehind the camera, Martin Scorsese proves beyond any reasonable doubt that he is one of the few veteran directors that can do what he did in his heyday with the same energy and exuberance, if not more so. With equal parts charm, sleaze and quick-witted hilarity, he creates an impeccably charismatic anti-hero that brings the house down, particularly during his numerous rousing speeches to his fanatic employees. For the first time, Leo’s assumed a character that you can tell was his by design – as opposed to recent performances that he may have been miscast for (in particular Gatsby and Django Unchained’s Calvin Candie). Word to the wise though, many of the gags are drug-related, sex-related or both, so you likely won’t enjoy the film if you’re a squeamish Sandra.Ĭomparatively, Leonardo DiCaprio’s numerous past Oscar nods look more like Chris O’Donnell performances here. ![]() I never thought I’d laugh at straight-faced ironic humour from the likes of Matthew McConaughey and Rob Reiner, but here we are. The pitch-perfect performances from the entire cast bring several laughs a minute with solid comic timing and a hint of improvisation here and there. As a recession-era cinema goer, your existing moral standards maintain that you should hate these bastards – but this movie challenges you to like them. However, the real paradox of this film is that Leo DiCaprio’s rock star persona and the rest of his lunk-headed entourage bring something very loveable and human to the whole slutty affair, primarily by having the audience rolling in the aisles for its entire gargantuan runtime. The Wolf of Wall Street is the true story of anti-hero Jordan Belfort’s meteoric rise to Wall Street dominance, with all the excess that we’ve come to expect from the real-life coke-snorting, whore-mongering banking elite that we’ve all heard whispers of. Fat jokes aside, the remainder of this review will focus on defending the assertions made in the lines above. It’s a 3-hour masterpiece with unavoidable comparisons to Goodfellas, but with a winning comedic formula spearheaded by the unlimited charisma of Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Jordan Belfort’ character and Jonah Hill’s his excellent flabby sidekick. The short version is that you should go and see this movie bloody immediately because it is simply brilliant. Chris Mcsweeney reviews the role that could clinch Leo his Oscar. We exhale, relieved, as an African-American nanny, used as clumsy shorthand for the common decency of the working class, weeps in horror.Veteran director Martin Scorsese returns with the hotly-tipped-for-awards glory, The Wolf of Wall street. When Scorsese and screenwriter Terence Winter finally levy their verdict, its effect is almost comforting: Belfort hits bottom when he gut-punches his wife, snatches his toddler, starts to drive off with her, and wrecks his car. The effect is oddly old-fashioned, like a DeMille epic in which the audience had to get its money’s worth of lusty pagans before holy judgment swung down. For two and a half hours - long past the point when many of us have cried uncle - he keeps throwing another car or yacht or nude woman on screen, officially appalled by their vulgarity but also eager to show us how well waxed they all are. ![]() Here, perhaps for the first time, we catch him instead. From GoodFellas to Casino to Gangs of New York to The Departed, he has loved to catch us falling in love with the devil. Martin Scorsese, who famously considered the priesthood in his youth, understands the allure of sin as few other directors do. ![]()
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