The Wolf of Wall Street

Rise and fall movies tend to buildup from success and happiness to despair and tragedy. Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas is a prime example about mobsters working their way up into the criminal hierarchy and bringing in the goods big time.

The Wolf of Wall Street is the same story, only it's told from a financial perception and it's easily more corrupt than the former. Leonardo DiCaprio delivers another phenomenal main role in this black comedy as Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker based on a true story.

Somehow learning the rules of the game and handling everything like a true salesman, manager, entrepreneur and more, Jordan continues to grow in the first half until he's got his own company called Stratton Oakmont.

Together with his business partner and best friend Donnie Azoff he runs this show alongside former marijuana dealers, financial fortune seekers and family members. Letting his company work using fraud cases and selling lies, Jordan becomes rich with his friends and colleagues and the free market's capital heaven has arrived.

As Jordan learned early on in the film from a former colleague at his first stockbroker job that you need to adopt a lifestyle of sex and drugs in order to succeed with the numbers, he adopts that to his whole crew and together they have the wildest parties with countless amounts of crazy drugs overdoses, gangbangs and to a lesser extent alcohol.

Scorsese uses some recognizable elements from Goodfellas here as well, such as dropping the fuck bombs, the rise and fall premise, black comedy and tons of abnormal situations. Well, maybe not that last one, as The Wolf of Wall Street is easily a very diversive entertaining movie.

Admittedly, I was jealous of the portrayed success at some point. The movie was also so ludicrous and over the top that it reminded me of the irony how capitalism works and that Wall Street is the biggest corrupted joke ever created.

Being somehow thankful, the fall part was devilish to experience, but also laughable especially because of DiCaprio's overdose scene where he heavily struggles to get back to his luxury car and drive home. The second half was a mixture of criminal drama and a lot of good jokes thrown in.

The Wolf of Wall Street is most of all a huge entertaining movie that is sure to leave an impression for movie goers, and Scorsese has created another milestone in his long career as director. The same goes for Leonardo. Man, that guy sure has grown up since Titanic.

Rating: 8.0