Wolf of Wall Street

HAS THERE been a more wildly inappropriate film than Wolf of Wall Street?

The latest collaboration between Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese is a three hour marathon of sex, drugs and crime as we follow the apparently true story of Jordan Belfort.

The film is based on Belfort’s memoir of the same name, a stockbroker who hit headlines in the early 1990s after the brokerage firm he founded, Stratton Oakmont, shot to the top of Wall Street through a combination of fraud and stock swindling.

He was investigated by the FBI for some time before finally being indicted in 1998 on charges including fraud and money laundering, and served only 22 months of a four year sentence for cooperating with the investigation.

Throughout his career he grew a love for drugs, starting off with cocaine before developing a serious addiction to quaalades.

As you can imagine it sounds like a pretty full-on life DiCaprio’s previous role as Gatsby in The Great Gatsby could only dream of, and it certainly earns its R18+ rating.

Scorsese’s film captures everything – the drug-fuelled parties, the angry outbursts, the fast cars, the ridiculously good-looking women and of course, the sex – no stone is left unturned in revealing Belfort’s rock star lifestyle.

DiCaprio continues his steller run of brilliant performances in universally popular films, a run that extends back as far as 2002 (with the exception of IMAX production Hubble).

He is the go-to man of big-ticket films, and his performance in Wolf of Wall Street perfectly encapsulates why.

Whether he is wooing a female character, taking another hit of drugs, blowing up at his wife after another drug-fuelled night or being brought down to size by the FBI, you believe everything you see.

His interaction with Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughey) as we are led through a mini biography narrated by Belfort at the beginning of the film is hilariously inappropriate.

Jonah Hill jumps into the supporting role as Donnie Azoff, a child furniture salesman living in the same apartment as Belfort who he decides to go into business with after noticing the latter’s lavish car.

It is a big role for Hill, who reportedly only earnt the minimum $60,000 for his work so he could work with Scorsese, but for the most part he is the Jonah Hill we have watched for the past decade – doing drugs, being drunk, and dropping hilarious lines.

Australian actress Margot Robbie plays the role of Naomi Lapaglia, Belfort’s second wife.

The jaw-dropping Queenslander spends most of her on-screen time wearing tight-fitting or no clothing at all and being overtly sexual, but she is just comfortable when she is called upon to be an angry, unhappy wife or the concerned mother later in the film.

Wolf of Wall Street comes in at a tick under three hours, but the frenetic pace and outrageous story hooks you in and makes the time fly.

It is also my favourite for at least three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor), but will face stiff competition from 12 Years A Slave and Gravity ina ll three categories.

If you are a very conservative person and do not like the "f-bomb" I would suggest avoiding Wolf of Wall Street – it is dropped 569 times.

For everybody else, Scorsese really did all he could to earn that R rating, and it will be an experience you will not forget.