This was my most anticipated movie of the year and...I was really disappointed..........yeah no this was by far the best movie of the year.
Martin Scorsese is an incredible director and it speaks volumes that two of my five favorite movies are directed by Scorsese. The Wolf of Wallstreet is the "true" tale of Jordan Belfort(Leonardo DiCaprio). He was a stockbroker in the 1990s who became unbelievably rich by selling penny stocks for worthless companies for thousands of dollars.
This movie was absolutely hysterical! There was a certain scene in particular which I don't want to spoil here so I'll just say that he takes a drug and it has some unexpected results. The story was also really fun and it had it's highs and lows.....but mostly highs.....both happiness and drugs. While I'm talking about it this movie is VERY gratuitous in it's sex and drugs. There actually was very little violence if there was any there was just lots of nudity. So yeah play it by ear if you think that you would be okay with that.
The performances are what really made this movie good. Don't get me wrong it's written and directed really well too, but that wouldn't mean anything without great actors backing it up. DiCaprio was great in this movie and his reactions were hilarious. Jonah Hill was also great. I need to watch some more movies of his because I wasn't really aware of this, but he's a legitimately good actor. Belfort's wife Naomi Lapaglia(Margot Robbie) was really good and I hope to see more of her soon. Pretty much all of the actors in this movie were really, really good which isn't really surprising since Scorsese can get a good performance out of anyone.
I don't really have any problems with this movie so I guess......the review is over....yep...bye...person.
10/10 the NEW best movie of the year
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