Wednesday, January 22, 2014

The Tragedy of Wall Street

I thought the Wolf of Wall Street was a highly overrated film. In all honesty I'd like to give the actors their due, Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie did a really good job, so did Jonah Hill. But apart from drugs and money, there was no epic twist, nothing remotely outstanding about the movie. It looked like a bad fusion of Scarface and Entourage and it really hurts that I have to compare it to Scarface which was a masterpiece. In all honesty the whole movie was the typical rags to riches story, money, drugs, tits and ass (definitely not Margot's cause she doesn't have any), drugs, Quaalude, sex and the cycle goes on. The second half of the movie after the interval was painfully dragged, To make things worse, scenes which could have helped save the movie, such as him snorting cocaine off various places, the gay party scene in his apartment and various other ones where just censored out. I'd probably give the movie a 6.5/10 for how funny the build up is, but that's me being nice. The main reason this movie caught such good reviews is cause of the language and open adult humour since the American Pie series. Apart from that Leonardo and Martin Scorsese's name literally sold the movie. People really need to think twice before rating a movie an 8.7/10 or a 4 star rating. More so, it is DEFINITELY not worth a theater watch.

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