The Wolf of Wall Street Film Review

The Wolf of Wall Street (18)

 

Seeing that the running time for ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ was three hours I was looking forward to a long evening of lots of entertainment – and that’s certainly what happened.

‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ is a really crude ‘cautionary tale’ as stated by the leading star Leonardo DiCaprio during a radio interview. It tells the true story of a Wall Street stock-broker lured into the criminal life.

The enjoyment level was on a high throughout the three-hour running time and not once did I feel let down. Ok, it is very adult and quite complex if you’re new to the whole stock-broker game, but even if, like me, you know nothing about that subject you’ll enjoy it nonetheless. The film received a lot of positive and negative reviews: the positive mostly giving a big thumbs-up to the direction and delvings into the life of Wall Street; the negative more concerned with the characters’ actions being of a poor standard, and the amount of nudity. Both of these are true because, yes, the direction is absolutely brilliant and exhilarating with a fast-moving storyline and, yes, the character is quite vile (well, all of them are to a certain extent) and the amount of nudity borders on the gratuitous. But you could argue that this is what the leading character’s world is like, seen through his eyes. The film is also very funny in places, with really laugh-out-loud standout slapstick set pieces.

Overall, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ is a fun way to spend three hours and never does it feel like a hard slog to get through. Highly recommended if you can stomach the nudity.