Movie Review: The Wolf of Wall Street

Movie Review: The Wolf of Wall Street

Movie Review: The Wolf of Wall Street

By Kendyl Chavez

Over the winter break, The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill was released on December 25, 2013. This movie is based on the true story of Jordan Belfort’s greatest success and fails of his life. The Wolf of Wall Street stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort, Jonah Hill as Donnie Azoff, Margot Robbie as Naomi Lapaglia, Matthew McConaughey as Mark Hanna, along with many others.

This movie shows us how Jordan Belfort got his start as a stockbroker and what he progressively became as the years went on. Belfort’s Wall Street story started when he was in his early 20s and aspiring to become the most successful stockbroker on Wall Street. After the crash of the economy and the loss of the most important job of his life, Jordan Beltfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) aspires to start his own business and uses all of the advice from Mark Hanna to become the founder of his own firm, Stratton Oakmont. Along with his success, Beltfort begins to get caught up in drugs, alcohol, partying, and having affairs with women until his life takes a turn and Beltfort gets arrested for his illegal stock broking actions.

I thought that the actors portrayed the roles of each character to the best of their ability and made the story believable. Each character was different and had different issues, which were played so well that it’s easy for the audience to believe each character. The director showed the side of Wall Street that not a lot of people know about and the affects money and success have on these people. Although the movie showed Beltfort’s story in detail, it was a long movie and kind of dragged on towards the end. I also thought the language in the movie was really explicit and so were the drug scenes. This is definitely a movie for an audience who doesn’t mind a movie about sex, drugs, and explicit language.