Posted: 12/28/2014
Trigger
Just watched this movie of 2013 with Leonardo DiCaprio as main actor and Martin Scorsese as director. Usually, I do not write Hollywood movie reviews on my blog.
This movie did not win any Oscar, but it was nominated in several categories like best actor and best director. On the IMDB website it is rated as 8.3 on a scale of 10 by about 488,000 users as of 12/28/2014.
The real man behind this movie, Mr. Jordan Belfort, wrote a memoir on which this movie is based, but Wikipedia notes “The truthfulness of Belfort's book and the film is a controversial subject.”.
Review
This movie has a length of 180 minutes, this is about 90 minutes to long. This movie is so repetitive and shallow. It is close to being a soft porno. DiCaprio’s performance was excellent throughout the movie.
More disturbing are the over and over used cliches or stereotypes of stockbrokers or stock traders as sleaze bags, oversexed (sex multiple times a day in the office and elsewhere, surrounded by nude women almost anywhere and anytime), constantly cocaine snorting and seriously drug addicted. In this respect this movie is way over the top.
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