When DiCaprio’s Belfort narrates, “The year I turned 26, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week,” West’s emphatic scream is there as an exclamation point, and the screams are there again to support the “wolf pit” mentality of the floor at Belfort’s Stratton Oakmont firm, which often breaks down into chest-thumping capitalist pep rallies. Riding the cultural zeitgeist, the exhilarating first trailer was set to Kanye West’s hyper-aggressive single “Black Skinhead,” which has little lyrically in common with the film, but got the vibe of it just right. Much like Jordan Belfort himself, The Wolf Of Wall Street came to theaters with a swagger and ostentatiousness that covered signs of rot under the foundation. But as a highly detailed portrait of true-life corruption and bad behavior in the financial sector, Wolf is pushy and hollow, too much of a bad thing, like a three-hour cold call from the boiler room that leaves you wondering, ‘What have I just been sold?’” -Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice “There are hints of greatness, one or two artfully constructed scenes that remind you why you look forward to new Scorsese films in the first place.
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“Belfort’s riches-to-slightly-less-riches tale has been brought to the screen by no less a connoisseur of charismatic sociopaths than Martin Scorsese, and the result is a big, unruly bacchanal of a movie that huffs and puffs and nearly blows its own house down, but holds together by sheer virtue of its furious filmmaking energy and a Leonardo DiCaprio star turn so electric it could wake the dead.” -Scott Foundas, Variety This movie may tire you out with its hammering, swaggering excess, but it is never less than wide-awake.” -A.O. Even the occasional lapses of filmmaking technique (scenes that drag on too long, shots that don’t match, noticeable continuity glitches) feel like signs of life. GoodFellas, a sprawling inquiry into how some men do business, is an obvious precedent, and so is Mean Streets, an intensive study of how some men get into trouble. Scorsese has thrown himself into filmmaking with this kind of exuberance.
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