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A thriller that fans insist gets ‘better every time I watch it’ is still streaming for free.
Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, was released in 2013 to much buzz thanks to its heady depiction of the wild excesses of a Wall Street brokerage firm in the 1990s.
Based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir of the same name – whom DiCaprio portrays – the film also stars Margot Robbie in a breakout role as Jordan’s wife Naomi, alongside Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, the late Rob Reiner and Dame Joanna Lumley.
The Wolf of Wall Street, which is available for a limited to time to stream on BBC iPlayer, was nominated for five Oscars – including best picture, best director and best actor for DiCaprio – but was controversially shut out of most of the awards conversation.
Nevertheless, it’s an amusingly dark thriller that resonated with fans.
‘Hilarious movie. Cast is excellent. Seen it 20 times and still watch it when it comes on,’ raved Dennis G in a five-star audience review on aggregator platform Rotten Tomatoes.
‘Gets better every time I watch it,’ chimed in another fan, while Thyaagu wrote: ‘2 hours of pure adrenaline rush + 1 hour of brutal truth – ‘excess has its limits’.’
‘I have heard this is a movie that is quote “not for everyone”. Well, if you do not like this movie then we have nothing in common,’ announced another fan with a full-mark reaction. ‘It’s impossible not to like this epic performance from DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Margot Robbie. I wish I could watch it again for the first time.’
Many insisted that The Wolf of Wall Street was ‘a masterpiece’, with Frans B adding: ‘Scorsese at his best here, seems to be in his element.’
It was also described as the pure definition of ‘absolute cinema’’ by Daniel, while many others had praise in particular for One Battle After Another star DiCaprio, praising him as ‘one of the best actors in the world’.
‘The Wolf of Wall Street is chaotic, outrageous, and razor-sharp, but what truly elevates it is Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance,’ enthused Muhammad. ‘This is Leo at his absolute peak: fearless, unhinged, charismatic, and disturbingly convincing. He doesn’t just play Jordan Belfort, he becomes him, making excess, greed, and moral decay feel both seductive and horrifying at the same time.’
Janis also heaped praise on all the main actors and described their performances as ‘to die for’, while noting that the Belfort’s real-life story, as portrayed in the film, written by Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter, is ‘so outrageous you would swear it wasn’t real! It is!’.
Reviewing for The Times, Camilla Long called The Wolf of Wall Street ‘probably Scorsese’s best film in 15 years’, while The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw said that, although it didn’t ‘quite have the subtlety and richness of Scorsese’s very best work’, it was still ‘an incredibly exhilarating film: a deafening and sustained howl of depravity’.
‘Scorsese’s best film since Casino, his most provocative since Goodfellas and by far the funniest film he’s ever made,’ suggested The Daily Star.
However, be warned before you sit down that The Wolf of Wall Street has a duration of three hours, which some fans and critics struggled with; Flicks’ Matt Glasby even called it ‘dangerously overlong’.
The Wolf of Wall Street is also very much more for an adult audience as the movie set a Guinness World Record for the most uses of profanity in a single film (including at least 500 f-bombs), something which – combined with its morally dubious (putting it nicely) characters and lack of sympathy for victims – caused controversy around its release.
Nevertheless, it grossed $407 million on a $100m budget, becoming Scorsese’s highest-grossing film to date, ahead of the likes of Shutter Island, The Departed and Gangs of New York.
The Wolf of Wall Street is streaming for free on BBC iPlayer until May 3.
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