The trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street promised fans a "proper" Martin Scorsese movie, and it's safe to say that the final product delivers... and then some. As Jordan Belfort, an honest broker who ends up getting involved in everything your mother worked hard to warn you about, Leonardo DiCaprio shines, offering up what is without a doubt one of the best performances of his career. What's more, this is a Scorsese movie working in the vein of Goodfellas - everything moving as one fluid, cinematic "whole." And it's glorious to watch it play out over three brilliant hours. At first glance, Wall Street might not seem like a particularly intriguing place to set a Scorsese movie (we all had our doubts when Scorsese announced this would be his next picture, surely?), but there's enough sex, drug-taking, energy and incident in the first hour alone to put any fearful minds at rest. The cast, which includes Matthew McConaughey and Jonah Hill, deliver fine performances, and the cinematography, editing, and soundtrack all point to Scorsese at the peak of his powers. For a movie of such length, it never stops being a brilliant attack on all the senses.
