REVIEW : Follow The Cinema Company
Well directed and top notch acting from Lionardo Dicaprio and rest of the acting crew, the biopic on Jordan Belfort (a stock broker), the drama film by master filmmaker Martin Scorsese scores high and engages you for the most part.
In The Wolf of Wall Street scripted by Terance Winter, Dicaprio enact the role of young wall street stock broker Jordan Belfort and the dramatic tale narrate the rise and fall of Belfort. Along with his professional life, the film touch upon his personal life where he is involved in crime and corruption that ultimately leads to his downfall. It is too difficult to pen down the basic crux of the story in three or four sentences and hence I am not touching on that aspect.
The story gives a glorified description of Belfort and in the process, the other characters in the film looses the attention they deserve.
To talk so much of Belfort and to provide every detail of his life, be it women, sex, drugs, trading in illegal financial deals forming part of his professional life, the script has elaborated on things and in the process the film runs close to three hours making it a touch too long.
Yet if the editing department (being one of the weak link in an otherwise technically sound film) could have taken care to trim the film a bit more, removing few unwanted scenes it would have benefited better in making this black comedy drama a bit more crispier. Also the climax is very extended and could have been finished a long time back.
Martin Scorsese in the direction department though totally different from his earlier works and Dicaprio in probably one of his best role of his career along with good background score form the noteworthy aspect of the movie and I should say among these its Dicaprio's charming screen presence that keeps the film at a reasonably high energy level. The film had everything in it to make it a rather dull drama but the actor makes the proceedings more livelier.
Supporting cast also do their act quite convincingly and among them, Jonah Hill as Donnie, Margot Robbie as Naomi, Mathew Mccnaughey who taught Belfort the tricks of stock trading, Christine Ebbersole and Rob Reiner as Belfort Sr are the notable ones. Its basically a long list of supporting casts and as said before everyone has contributed too good making it a pleasurable movie watching experience for the audiences. But giving a glorified sketch to the character of Belfort and too much focus on him makes rest of the characters fade away though the actors doing total justice to their respective roles.
A thoroughly engaging drama and watchable for two persons namely Leonardo Dicaprio in the acting department and for Martin Scorsese in direction i am going with 3.75 / 5. Engaging as well as a bit tiring, be prepared for that.
AUTHOR DETAILS :
I am Chandra Mohan, a passionate movie buff. Connect with me through my review page
@
https://www.facebook.com/thecinemacompany2
Well directed and top notch acting from Lionardo Dicaprio and rest of the acting crew, the biopic on Jordan Belfort (a stock broker), the drama film by master filmmaker Martin Scorsese scores high and engages you for the most part.
In The Wolf of Wall Street scripted by Terance Winter, Dicaprio enact the role of young wall street stock broker Jordan Belfort and the dramatic tale narrate the rise and fall of Belfort. Along with his professional life, the film touch upon his personal life where he is involved in crime and corruption that ultimately leads to his downfall. It is too difficult to pen down the basic crux of the story in three or four sentences and hence I am not touching on that aspect.
The story gives a glorified description of Belfort and in the process, the other characters in the film looses the attention they deserve.
To talk so much of Belfort and to provide every detail of his life, be it women, sex, drugs, trading in illegal financial deals forming part of his professional life, the script has elaborated on things and in the process the film runs close to three hours making it a touch too long.
Yet if the editing department (being one of the weak link in an otherwise technically sound film) could have taken care to trim the film a bit more, removing few unwanted scenes it would have benefited better in making this black comedy drama a bit more crispier. Also the climax is very extended and could have been finished a long time back.
Martin Scorsese in the direction department though totally different from his earlier works and Dicaprio in probably one of his best role of his career along with good background score form the noteworthy aspect of the movie and I should say among these its Dicaprio's charming screen presence that keeps the film at a reasonably high energy level. The film had everything in it to make it a rather dull drama but the actor makes the proceedings more livelier.
Supporting cast also do their act quite convincingly and among them, Jonah Hill as Donnie, Margot Robbie as Naomi, Mathew Mccnaughey who taught Belfort the tricks of stock trading, Christine Ebbersole and Rob Reiner as Belfort Sr are the notable ones. Its basically a long list of supporting casts and as said before everyone has contributed too good making it a pleasurable movie watching experience for the audiences. But giving a glorified sketch to the character of Belfort and too much focus on him makes rest of the characters fade away though the actors doing total justice to their respective roles.
A thoroughly engaging drama and watchable for two persons namely Leonardo Dicaprio in the acting department and for Martin Scorsese in direction i am going with 3.75 / 5. Engaging as well as a bit tiring, be prepared for that.
AUTHOR DETAILS :
I am Chandra Mohan, a passionate movie buff. Connect with me through my review page
@
https://www.facebook.com/thecinemacompany2
No comments:
Post a Comment
Your feedback is always appreciated. We will try to reply to your queries as soon as time allows.
Note: Abusive and Spam comments will be deleted immediately upon our review.
Regards,
Admin