The Wolf of Wall Street
review by
ANIZ FILMVALA
*****
CRITIC VIEW.
Mind blowing!! The Wolf of Wall Street is a razz dazzle
cinematic experience Directed by Martin Scorsese this is a wild American work
culture, sex,drugs,money and deceitful way of earning big money at the wall street.
Whoa!!
Oscar award winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio shows his mammoth
energy of acting which is unparalleled and idiosyncratic which has no match in
this universe.
Dirty language and superb black comedy at express speed which
will hardly give you a time to blink.
Scorsese has got the DiCaprio's frenzied liveliness
on the screen which has some unforgettable moment as when he delivers the sales
speech to his co-workers; the drug overdose and emotional trauma of his
separation from his kids have shot with confidence.
Roughly 180 minutes of screen
time and you witness insane world of Wall Street power-hungry activities which
will definitely keep you glued till end.
There are some fantastic performance by jonah hill, Jon
Favreau, Rob Reiner who plays Belfort's father. Also in a cameo is British TV actor
Joanna Lumley as aunt Emma and Jean Dujardin as a Swiss banker.
"Wolf" is the ultimate ride to bad behavior and no
moral practice if you have the appetites to see a incursion formula film please
go for it or ignore.
STORY.
In 1987, Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) becomes a
stockbroker at an established Wall Street firm. His boss, Mark Hanna (Matthew
McConaughey), recommends to him that he adopt a lifestyle of drugs and prostitutes
in order to succeed. He passes the Series 7 Exam and earns his broker's
license, only to lose his job when the firm fails after Black Monday.
With the job market for stockbrokers slack, Belfort
considers another career, but his wife Teresa Petrillo (Cristin Milioti) finds
an ad for Investor Center, a Long Island boiler room which deals in penny
stocks. Here, his aggressive pitching style soon earns him a fortune. He
befriends Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill), a salesman who lives in the same apartment
complex as Belfort, and they decide to open their own firm together, recruiting
several of Belfort's friends (all experienced marijuana dealers) and some
co-workers from Investor Center to join them. The firm, Stratton Oakmont, soon
becomes a billion-dollar company, and Belfort brings his parents, accountants
"Mad" Max (Rob Reiner) and Leah Belfort (Christine Ebersole), to
handle his finances.
Belfort funds lavish parties for his employees. He begins
cheating on his wife with several prostitutes, and becomes addicted to cocaine
and Quaaludes. FBI agent Patrick Denham (Kyle Chandler) begins investigating
Belfort and the company. At one of his parties, he meets Naomi Lapaglia (Margot
Robbie) and begins an affair with her that leads to his wife divorcing him.
Belfort falls in love with and proposes to Lapaglia. They wed, and a few months
later, have a daughter, Skylar.
The FBI investigation continues, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission joining in. Belfort opens a Swiss bank account with
Jean-Jacques Saurel (Jean Dujardin) in the name of Naomi's aunt Emma (Joanna
Lumley). She and other non-Americans regularly carry cash to Geneva for
deposit, helping Belfort launder the proceeds of Stratton's securities frauds.
The scheme is nearly exposed by an incident where Azoff gets into a fight with
Brad Bodnick (Jon Bernthal), a drug dealer and friend of Belfort's who has been
helping transfer money to Switzerland.
After Bodnick is arrested, Azoff decides to take extremely
powerful "Lemmon" Qualuudes with Belfort, in an attempt to break the
news to him. The two take the pills and watch Family Matters, with no effect.
Belfort soon receives a call from his lawyer, who advises him to call him on a
payphone. Belfort goes to a local country club and talks to his lawyer on a payphone,
who tells him that his house phone has been wiretapped. The qualuudes begin
severely affecting Belfort, who drives home and finds Azoff talking on the
phone about the laundered money, before eating ham and almost choking to death.
Belfort counteracts the effects of the qualuudes with a massive amount of
cocaine, and then performs CPR on Azoff, saving him.
Belfort and Azoff take their wives on a yacht trip to Italy,
where they learn that Emma has died of a heart attack. Over his grieving wife's
objections, Belfort orders the boat to Monaco so they can stop in Switzerland
on the way to the funeral and settle the bank account, but it is capsized by a
violent storm. After their rescue, a plane sent to take them to Geneva explodes
in midair just before landing. Belfort considers this a sign from God and
decides to sober up.
Two years later, Denham arrests Belfort during the filming
of an infomercial. Saurel, arrested in Florida due to another scheme, has told
the FBI everything. Since the case against him is overwhelming, Belfort agrees
to wear a wire to gather evidence against his colleagues. He slips Azoff a note
about this during a conversation.
Optimistic about his chances at sentencing, he attempts to
reconcile with Naomi. Instead she tells him she wants a divorce, provoking a
violent confrontation in which he attempts to leave with Skylar. The next
morning, Denham, who had obtained the note Belfort passed to Azoff, arrests
him. This time Belfort tells the FBI everything, leading to over 20 arrests in
the ensuing raid on Stratton.
Belfort is sentenced to three years in prison. He serves his
time at a minimum security Nevada facility where, just like Wall Street,
"everything is for sale." At the end of the film, he is teaching
sales techniques at a seminar in New Zealand.
