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1987 year. Jordan Belfort becomes a broker for a successful investment bank. The bank closes shortly after the sudden collapse of the Dow Jones. On the advice of his wife Teresa, Jordan gets a job in a small institution that deals with small shares. His persistent style of communication with clients and innate charisma quickly pays off. He meets Donnie's housemate, a merchant, who immediately finds a common language with Jordan and decides to open his own company with him. They hire several of Belfort's friends and his father Max as employees and call the company Stratton Oakmont. In his free time, Jordan spends his life: maneuvering from one party to another, having sexual relations with prostitutes, using many drugs, including cocaine and quaalud. One day the moment comes when an FBI agent begins to take an interest in Belfort's get-rich-quick ...

The Wolf of Wall Street 4K Review
Young New York stock trader Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) gets his brokerage license on Black Monday in 1987 and, due to the global financial crisis, immediately finds himself on the street. Since the big financial firms don't hire anyone, Belfort is forced to take a job with a small provincial firm that trades in penniless, unlisted stocks, and discovers that it is a lucrative business, as brokers in this industry take a commission at 50%, which Wall Street cannot imagine. Using the skills of "forcing" shares acquired in New York, Belfort soon becomes a millionaire, and then opens his own financial firm and plunges headlong into the world of insane income and insane "burning" with prostitutes, drugs and throwing dwarfs.

Instead of cocaine, the "Wolf" stars inhaled crushed tablets of vitamin B - the so-called "pep vitamin" that helps the actors work
When a director invites viewers to watch a three-hour film, he cannot just say: "Come in, you will like it, we have good actors!" After all, while his movie is on, you can watch two ordinary films - it is quite possible that they are talented and interesting. To reach the audience, the director of the three-hour film must make her an offer she cannot refuse. What should be included in such a proposal? At least a guarantee that the main character of the opus is an entertaining subject who will win the audience's sympathy and whose fate it will be interesting to follow.

In the scene in which Jonah Hill's character swallows a live goldfish, the actor wanted to do it for real, but he was not allowed to eat the fish for medical and ethical reasons.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about Jordan Belfort. Martin Scorsese has followed in the footsteps of his own Nicefellas and other famous gangster films by filming this real-life schemer. But the financier is not a gangster! Vile thugs like Michael Corleone in "The Godfather 2" or Tony Montana from "Scarface" draw the audience's sympathy because they risk their lives, roam the knife's edge and confront those who are ready to put a bullet in the head at any second. The fear of death is a great equalizer. Belfort, however, plays with death throughout the three-hour narrative only when he takes too many drugs. He is not threatened by the mafia, he does not face a death sentence and a long imprisonment, and viewers at the very beginning of the film will learn that ruin is not a tragedy for Belfort, since he is such a cunning merchant that he can rise from any bottom. He is not afraid of family contempt (unlike the protagonist of "Wall Street"): his father works with him, and his wife is aware of his affairs. And she is not such a woman to seriously read morality to someone. So why on earth would you empathize with this criminal who begins by taking away the savings from the poor? At least the drug dealers give something to their clients in exchange for money, and Belfort takes it all clean. Then he brags about his irrepressible greed, has fun like a "new Russian", sniffs everything that he sniffs, and sleeps with everything that moves. No depth, no tragedy, no complexity - a continuous spree. Sophisticated and captivating in form, but rather primitive in content. A huge, but the only plus of this character is that he is played by the charming DiCaprio. Who has a life-size portrait of Leo hanging at home?

Of course, Scorsese accommodated more than Belfort's "exploits" in three o'clock. There are witty jokes in the film, and financial educational program, and naked beauties, and colorful minor characters, and quite a worthy drive. However, this is primarily a picture of Belfort, and the disgust you feel for him still poisons Scorsese's coups. The film does not benefit from the fact that the drama in the narrative emerges an hour and a half after its start, when the FBI takes over Belfort. Until this moment, the "Wolf" - just a series of events. Sometimes funny and effective, but not as exciting as a successful three-hour movie should capture.