The wolf of wall street movie summary
Almost instantly turning to crime, he forges a pay cheque on a corner shop photocopier and scams his way into a penthouse apartment – sub-letting it to a load of Bulgarian builders to cover his costs.ĭuring the inevitable police raid that follows, Viktor bumps into his new partner, Jerry (Frederick Lau, The Wave) and the pair start thinking much bigger.
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Viktor arrives in Berlin with nothing but 200 euros and a nice suit, quickly realising that it’s almost impossible to get a job (or even a place on a park bench for the night) in post-recession Germany. Kaya quickly settles into his own groove but the shadow of much better films stills looms large over the whole script, and 90 minutes is far too long to try and keep up a pace it can’t quite match.
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For the first 10 minutes it looks like Rising High is going to try and be as Scorsese as possible – with shamed hero Viktor (David Kross, mostly known over here for The Reader and War Horse) narrating the story of his downfall from prison. Cüneyt Kaya’s white-collar crime caper may sound awful on paper, but it actually stands up pretty well as a slick heist movie with a raft of great lead performances, a punchy script and a lot of party montages.Ĭue slow-motion shots of strippers jumping into swimming pools, guys doing coke off of mirrored tables and duffle bags of banknotes being tipped upside down for no reason. If that’s not enough to put you off, hearing the film described as “ The Wolf Of Wall Street for estate agents” might be.
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Rising High might sound like a boring title but at it’s a lot better than the German original, Betonrausch, which literally translates as “concrete crazy”.