The Wolf of Wall Street – 7.3

I can’t think of a single credible, or logical, scene in the entire movie. So, okay, take it on its own absurdist terms, and it was pretty funny. The trouble, though, for me at least, was that this was based on real events and real people and a real business, which made it hard to accept it as fantasy. This was far and away the most I’ve like Leo DiCaprio in a movie, and Jonah Hill, Jean DuJardin and Kyle Chandler were comparably good. Many others were cardboard cutouts, which is all that was required of them, I guess. At the end, after almost three hours of leisurely pace, watching strippers, doing drugs, the most psychologically interesting developments are presented bang-bang-bang in confusing manner, a finally unconvincing nod to events as they actually happened.