Jonah Hill is the strange secret weapon of this film. WOWS got a lot of attention by the academy of arts and science in 2014 for its epic quality drama and the larger than life adaptation of a real Wall Street con-artist and his conspicuous consumption based on a true story. Leonardo DiCaprio is wonderful at bringing real characters to life on the big screen. In The Aviator, he became Howard Hughes. In Catch Me if You Can, he became Frank Abagnale. In TWOW, he becomes real time criminal, Jordan Belfort. There is this one scene that stands out to me: he is on his yacht off the coast of France and he tells his best friend and drug dealer, Jonah Hill, that he cannot and will not die while being sober. They are stuck in what appears to be a deadly squall. Jonah Hill goes to get him his drugs...and suddenly everything is okay again. Director Martin Scorsese seamlessly blends the danger and depravity of Jordan Belfort's life with his own unique vision of how an American criminal gets from his auspicious beginnings through to the inevitable finish line: prison.

This is a roller coaster of a film. You start at the bottom, we'll call it grounded on earth. As you watch, the coaster climbs and keeps climbing, twisting and looping for over two hours. When reality (of sorts) starts to set in, only then does the coaster begin a gradual crash back to earth. I loved every minute of it. Fair warning, though, this is a HARD 'R' rated movie. There is more profanity, sex and drugs than any other movie I have ever seen.

Entertaining and over-the-top, the Wolf of Wall Street gives an eyebrow-raising glimpse at Wall Street excess. As usual, Scorsese and DiCaprio are great together. I usually judge how good a movie is by how often I think about it afterwards. Bad or throwaway movies are wiped from memory the next morning. This movie, however, stuck with me for days -- and not just because it was raunchy, drug-filled and full of obscenities (although that didn't hurt, heh). The acting all-around is superb: DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Cristin Milioti, everyone. And there are scenes that just bristle with energy and reality: Jordan trying to bribe Agent Denham on his yacht, for example, or a doped-up Jordan struggling to get into his car to drive home. Even at three hours long, there is hardly a wasted line or unneeded scene.

Money, power, sex, Ferraris, all the accoutrements of the domains of undisciplined hedonism to which our paradigms of personal value are vulnerable: that's the Wolf of Wall St. This movie depicts that Wolf in all its gory, naked, addicted glory. 60 years ago all this would've been considered decadent and evidence of the decline of civilization. Today, it's just another pseudo-pornographic walk in the park. I enjoyed this movie for all the base reasons. Why indict the Wolf? Let's give him his disguise of heroism, let's make him into an international business star. Mercury, the god of merchants and cross roads, was after all also the god of thieves. It's easy enough to see what the Wolf stole from others. Question is, what does this movie steal from us? You'll have to watch to find out.

We enjoyed this movie even though is it unusually long. Understanding that the movie was based on true events, it was scary how much money and power these people accumulated in such a short time. The excesses got a little sickening as the movie wore on. It was easy to dislike DiCaprio's character and all his rich, powerful friends. Arrogance, greed, and a simple lack of caring about others made rooting against these guys easy. What's concerning is that banks today are issuing the equivalent of CDOs, just with different names.

Scorsese told Charlie Rose the movie was so long because it took him that long to tell the story. And quite a story it is. If the viewer doesn't mind spending 3 hours with people who make one's skin crawl, this is one for the ages.

Great story. Super raunchy. Super vulgar. Obscene. Drug filled. Nudity. I tend to gravitate towards movies where the protagonist is basically out of control, and this movie fits the bill. You’ll cry from laughing if you have a good sense of well balanced dark humor. Possibly DiCaprio’s best movie to date.

This is honestly one of my top favorite movies of all time. I feel like the people who don't love it don't have the appreciation for what an incredible movie this is. Yes, its very graphic, lots of nudity and sex, lots of drugs and violence. But, that's all part of it. I am very picky with movies and I have to REALLY love a movie to sit through it if it is long. With this movie, it doesn't even feel long to me every single time I watch it (at least 5 times by now!). I think the movie is interesting and capturing from start to finish. Scorsese and DiCaprio did an amazing job.

Leonardo DiCaprio's hilarious facial expressions in this movie are unparalleled. The main character is a completely unlikable person, but DiCaprio's acting is so good that it makes this a fun and interesting movie, regardless of the fact that I probably would probably really enjoy watching someone punch Jordan Belfort in the face in real life. I'm taking away one star because of that ridiculously ableist "cerebral palsy phase" scene. That scene with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill could have been hilarious if they hadn't made it into a joke at the expense of physically and/or intellectually disabled people. They could have easily been made without the blatantly ableist comparison. I understand that this movie could not have been made true to the character that it's depicting without the level of misogyny that was present throughout the entire movie, because the main character is clearly not supposed to be someone anyone would sympathize with. But throwing disabled people under the bus was not necessary to the plot or the character development at all. That was just an example of cheap, exploitative humor with violent undertones that has very bad consequences in the real world.