In
a movie about the excesses of Wall street brokers in the 1990s "the
Wolf Of Wall Street" is excessive in all aspects starting with a movie
that, running at 3 hours, could have easily been cut by an hour.  You
will see at least 3-4 scenes more than you need to showing the excess of
drugs whether cocaine, Quaaludes or whatever else is on hand. After one
scene of fellatio it is almost quarantined that there will be  a dozen
more. If you miss that full frontal nude scene--women only, of
course--just wait a few minutes as there are so many repeats of the
scene, using different women, over the three hours you aren't really
missing anything. Whether it be orgies of sex or luxury or curse
words it almost makes the story meaningless. It does leave the question
why a man who owns a 170 foot yacht wouldn't own his own jet or at least
rent one to go to Las Vegas but then the excessive orgy on the plane wouldn'thave the same outcome. It is one of the many missteps in this film.

"The
Wolf Of Wall Street" is based on the book, and true story, by Jordan
Belfort who made his fortune during the 1990s when the stock market made
millionaires of many young men. Terence Winter wrote the screenplay and
Martin Scorsese directed the film working with Leonardo DiCaprio for
the fifth time.

DiCaprio
plays his second rich man this year, after starring as Gatsby, but
Jordan Belfort is more interested in himself than he is in a woman or
women, though he has sex with many of them. He also has 2 slapstick
scenes, one with Jonah Hill, that shows his comedic talent and he is
much more relaxed in this film than he has been in awhile. This is one
of his better performances though he too has excessive, unnecessary
scenes and goes a little overboard here and there.

Jonah
Hill, as Belfort's best friend and business partner, gets too hammy
here and there to raise the empathy of the audience to accept the fact
that he is not a 'bad' person. Kyle Chandler plays the FBI man who
doesn't seem capable of a smile. The women in the film are there to play
the wives, mothers, girlfriends and hookers. Would you accept Rob
Reiner as DiCaprio's father? He does  a good job as does Jean Dujardin,
Jon Favreau and Jon Bernthal.

With
"Magic Mike", "Mud", "Dallas Buyers Club" Matthew McConaughey adds the
cherry to the top of his winning acting streak in "The Wolf Of Wall
Street" playing Mark Hanna, a very successful Wall street broker who
seems to have invented excessiveness. His role calls for him to be over
the top and he takes it just far enough.
As
in most Scorsese movies all the production values are first rate except
for the editing in this one. It seems as if the director was rushed and
the picture was being released before he finished his job. Whether he
would have cut the movie and removed a lot of the excessive
excessivenes, if not by an hour at least by 30 minutes, hopefully he
will when it comes out on DVD or the viewer can fast forward through all
the repetitions.