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| Genres: | Dr |
| Starring: | Eli Wallach, Frank Langella, Josh Brolin, Vanessa Ferlito, Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Austin Pendleton |
| Director(s): | Oliver Stone |
| Available Quality: | DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def |
| Country: | USA |
| Year: | 2010 |
| IMDB Rating: | 6.3 |
As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young traders mentor.
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Visitor Reviews: (20)
Dye-85-838346 17 May 2012
Fancy but boring propaganda is pointless
I kept thinking that it had to get better, no just boring propagandawhere all business guys are rich and bad and liberal reporters can savethe planet. Nothing fun or happy about this gloomy tale. The positiveabout this film is that you want some bad guys to get it and in someway they do. If you believe in conspiracies like secret cheap energythat is suppressed by oil companies, yeah its paraded here. I doubt anengineer was talked to about the script. The love story was very weak,couldn't see any chemistry or point to their relationship. We wererooting for them to break up because they didn't mesh. Bitter moviethroughout.
badajoz-1 17 May 2012
Last 40 Minutes kill this sequel
It is a sequel, and it does not let down the original in many ways.But, and it is a big but, somehow American sensibilities of redemption,the Family and repentance, have to be thrust centre stage for the finalsection of the film, and it stinks. By golly the last forty minutes orso are dreadful - in order to achieve a happy ending. Stone actuallyfinishes the 'Wall Street' element of the movie with a Looney Tunesfade, eg the screen closing in an ever decreasing circle, well beforethe end. So is he responsible for the ending of the film or is someoneelse? But the earlier parts are good in places. The story tells of theglobal meltdown and credit crunch on Wall Street, although thequickness of the speech and script give you little time to take it allin, and how it affects several characters in its devilish maw. In theoriginal the personal and the public stories meshed and meldedbrilliantly, but in this film the two elements do not work so well. Thecharacter of Shia La Beef(as an ambitious trader with a heart) isfragmentary and too poorly written, Josh Brolin (as ace villain) apapier mache construction, and Carey Mulligan (as Douglas's left wingdaughter desperately trying to act American-style only with her face)pouts and pleads like a wet towel. Only Michael Douglas keeps the shipafloat throughout as he plots his comeback from jailtime and beingbottom of the heap. But his timely exposure of the reasons for themeltdown do not match with his later re-ascendancy in the markets - itsimply does not work. And the plot line that sees Carey Mulliganre-finance her father is ludicrous and unbelievable. But there are goodthings - Frank Langella as an old time Wall Streeter and the earlyvisuals, especially as Shia is lured to his betrayal down on the NYsubway by the Satan-like Gekko. Some of it works, but not half as wellas it ought to have done.
gradyharp 14 May 2012
Bloody Dull
In WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS Oliver Stone delivers one of the topRotten Tomato movies of the year. There is so little story to tellthroughout this 134 minute endless mess of a film that the viewers mustresort to just ignoring the fact that we are being drowned inWallStreetSpeak and settle instead for watching the skills of such fineactors as Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin,Susan Sarandon (for a brief moment), Eli Wallach, and Frank Langella(one wonders why they ever signed on to this film if they read thescript). Perhaps it is the current economic climate that makes it difficult tofind any humor or concern for these characters crippled by therecession: there are no redeeming outcomes form the crash that wouldsuggest that anyone involved with Big Money learned a thing form thegovernment bailout of Wall Street. But watching the prison release ofGordon Gekko (Douglas) and discovering that his angry, unforgivingdaughter Winnie (Mulligan) has taken up with a bright lad Jake(LaBeouf) who in many ways is like the father she loathes, then in asmarmy manner climbing back into the money game only to destroy anyseed of conscience that might have grown from his incarceration and indoing so drive a wedge between Winnie and Jake is hardly the stuff ofwhich memorable movies are made. Oliver Stone drowns us in noise anddespicable malicious characters and in the end beats the audience todeath with his excesses in every aspect of this film. It is a waste oftalent for the cast. Grady Harp
gerrythree 13 May 2012
Wall Street 2 Is A Dull Movie
After a crackerjack start showing Gordon Gekko checking out of prison,the title credit rolls and Wall Street 2 falls into a rut it never getsout of. As the cast moves from one glossy set to another, all very wellphotographed as if for the Discovery Channel, I was waiting for action.In Wall Street 2, there is no real action, just talking heads as theactors recite lines from a script with no originality and no humor.Everything is glossy, no exterior scenes at night showing piled garbagein downtown Manhattan, to be picked up later, serving as thesmorgasbord for hungry rats. No scenes showing cars getting ticketedand drivers stuck in midtown Manhattan traffic. A movie set in asanitized Manhattan, where the only minorities you see are the Chinesepotential investors at a conference where Shia LaBeouf's charactersaves the day with his knowledge of a company out to generate fusionenergy using multiple lasers to convert seawater to clean energy (Note:I am a big backer of cold fusion).In this movie about Wall Street, everyone is a Boy Scout, there is nosmoking that I recall and no drug use of any kind, not even peopletaking prescribed anti-depressants. This movie shows Wall Street asaccurately as the TV soap opera General Hospital shows the workingsinside a hospital. In other words, Wall Street 2 is a complete shampopulated by very good looking people who never find themselves in adark corner, really worried, in trouble with no escape route. There isone scene in LaBeouf's company where you see a chubby office workerwalking by LaBeouf, the guy carrying a cardboard box with his personalpossessions. Does the guy make a comment about how rotten things are,laid off with thousands of other co-workers? Of course not. That isstuff that happens in the real world, a world the movie's scriptwritersare incapable of presenting due to incompetence or possibly excessivedrug use.Try as he might, Michael Douglas cannot do much with his role as awaffling Gordon Gekko. Someone should have told director Oliver Stonethat when he says "Action," there should be some interesting action.Watching the character Winnie Gekko spend most of the movie moping doesnot qualify as action in my playbook. To end my comments on a positivenote, Wall Street 2 does have one redeeming quality: in a down economyhitting Hollywood studio movies particularly hard, this sequel providedjobs to a lot of actors and craft people.
estebangonzalez10 12 May 2012
Prison has softened Gordon Gekko
¨So, does Blue Horseshoe still love Anacott Steel? ¨This quote was from Charlie Sheen's cameo in Oliver Stone's WallStreet: Money Never Sleeps, which only served as a reminder of how goodthe original film was and how distant the sequel is from it. The filmbegan with a lot of promise and I thought there was little anyone coulddo to mess it up considering Michael Douglas was back with one of hisbest roles as Gordon Gekko. The problem is that with time and life inprison Gekko has changed and he isn't that powerful person he once was.The major problem I had with this movie was the ending which I thoughtwas way too soft and it seemed as if Stone sold out to the typicalHollywood ending, which was nothing like the finale in the first part.However this isn't a bad movie, it just isn't as good as Wall Streetbecause Gekko isn't as bad a villain as he was in 1987. If you've seenthis and haven't seen the first film then make sure you do because Iguarantee you will enjoy Douglas's Oscar winning role as Gordon in thatmovie more than in this one. Oliver Stone is known for always bringingthe best out of his cast and this movie is no exception. I reallyenjoyed the supporting cast, especially Frank Langella, Josh Broslin,and Eli Wallach who were really great in every scene they were in. ShiaLaBeouf is no Charlie Sheen, but he wasn't bad in this film either, andone can say Carey Mulligan is a much better actress than what DarylHannah was in Wall Street. I know they are different characters, butthey are similar players in similar roles. The screenplay was writtenby Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff, but it wasn't as powerful as Weiser'soriginal screenplay.The movie begins in 2001 with Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) beingreleased from a long jail sentence. No one is there to pick him up andit is obvious that things have changed for him over the years. Themovie then jumps forward to 2008 and introduces us to Jacob Moore (ShiaLaBeouf), a young man who works at a banking institution named KellerZabel Investments and who is trying to raise money for a fusionresearch project. His boss is Lewis Zabel (Frank Langella) and he islike a father figure for him because he has taught him everything heknows about being a broker. Zabel gives Jacob a bonus for his work, butat the same time he seems depressed because the company has been losingmoney due to the financial crisis that has hit everyone. Jacob decidesto buy a nice ring with the money given to him and propose to hisbeautiful girlfriend Winnie (Carey Mulligan) who actually happens to beGordon's daughter who has broken all ties with her father after hisarrest that led to her brother's death from drug overdose. Gekko wrotea book during his time in jail and now he finds himself promoting itthroughout different colleges. Jacob goes to one of these lectures andtells Gordon that he is planning on marrying his daughter. They beginto hang out secretly and Gekko explains to Jacob what may have causedZabel to have recently committed suicide. He says that Bretton James(Josh Broslin), a successful broker, began rumors to hurt Zabel'scompany and benefit from its demise. Jacob swears he will get hisrevenge, but the question is whether his relationship with Gordon willaffect his relationship with Winnie, and whether or not he can actuallytrust him.Gordon Gekko was a true villain in the 80's although many peopleactually bought into his philosophy once the movie was released. Now acouple of decades later he is more of in a gray area. The true villainis Bretton James, and I thought that was one of the things that hurtthe film, because Gekko made a terrific villain and there was no needto soften him in this film. One of the best scenes in this movie is thelecture that he gives at Jacob's alma matter about the foreseeablefinancial crises. It was reminiscent of the speech he gave in the firstfilm about money and greed. That was the highlight of the film, whileon the downside you have the washed down Hollywood ending. The film hadthe potential to be a lot better than it actually was if it focusedmore on the economic aspect and less on the melodrama and relationshipsbetween Gordon and his daughter and Jacob with Winnie. This isn't a badmovie, but I still recommend the first one over this any day. One thingis certain, Michael Douglas won't win another Oscar for this version ofGekko.http://estebueno10.blogspot.com/
Tim Baker 12 May 2012
Big Disappointment
A dull, boring excuse for a movie. I watched it for free from BBexpress and it wasn't even worth the time... Oliver Stone has reducedhimself to trying to take a canned script, throwing in a pop star (ShiaLaBeouf) and selling it for a serious movie. This joke of a movie isthe pathetic result. Even from a pure entertainment value, the moviewas terrible - I've seriously had more entertainment getting my toothfilled at the dentists' office.I'm ashamed to say that once upon a time Oliver Stone was my favoritedirector/movie-maker. Not any more - he lost any respect with thismovie - this movie has NO SOUL. I normally don't take the time to evenrant, but I thought I'd save someone else from wasting their time likeI did.
Jim C 05 May 2012
Money Never Sleeps, it is just not awake for this
"You stop telling lies about me, and I will stop telling the truth about you." Gordon Gecko (Michael Douglas) tries to make this a famous quote in the movie, but there is really nothing that will be famous from this one. Oliver Stone set out to tell everyone this is NOT a sequel. In the meantime, he used the same title, same characters, same actors, and picked up the story 20 years later.Then he filled the movie with back story to fill in what we missed. Why go half way? Many people buying tickets wanted the slicked hair, "Greed is Good" Gecko to come back like Darth Vader did in Star Wars sequels.The most obvious story would have been Gordon having planned his revenge in jail, returns to carve Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) a new "bottom". But when Bud Fox appears in this one, it is more a cameo and no substance to be found.Much like Darth Vader saying Hi to Luke in the Alien Bar and moving on. In the meantime we have Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf) making a career of starring in poorly scripted sequels with aging actors. Unlike Indiana Jones, he was not someone we would care about in this one. We couldn't even dislike him.He was much like the 3 year old in Olive Garden. Loud, obnoxious, over energetic, and just annoying. His soon to be wife, Winnie Gecko (Carey Mulligan) gave a great performance when she was opposite Douglas.Her angst at re-connecting with her Father was spot on. And you could tell that naming her Winnie was one big mistake! What happened to Rudy, Gecko's son from the first movie? That gets explained as well.But her interaction with LaBeouf is strained and when they kiss it is like two first graders, not two people madly in love. Susan Sarandon plays Jake's Mother and is a scene stealer, but for the reason that the other actors just seem to be taking an acting test, rather than giving real emotion to the part.In one scene, LaBeouf stands to lose a million dollars. He reacts like he dropped a twenty in the bathroom.If anything, Frank Langella could have taught him to act since he played his mentor, Louis Zabel. Langella is spot on with his emotions in every scene. One last thing to watch for is when Eli Wallach makes his "bird sound" playing Jules. We kinda want to like him, but we barely get more than a few tweets, and not the electronic kind.If you want to burn $10 now, take 2 hours and give this a look. You may find some decent scenes to almost earn your money. It plays just as well on DVD and unfortunately Oliver Stone will find it in the $5 bargain bin a few years from now.Almost a fitting end for a stock market movie about people losing lots of money.
purrrpuss 04 May 2012
Amateurish fantasy flick for boys
Oh yawn, this is real tripe. It has the look and feel of a film studiesco-operative effort to make a grown up film about a subject none of theparticipants has any knowledge or experience of. The cinematography isp--s poor; the story is as thin as Michael Douglas's silk socks; andthe whole is as believable as Father Christmas squeezing himself downyour gas fire flue every 25th December. Douglas was clearly doingcharity work - or just ensuring that when he pops his clogs there'll besomething to keep his name in the news. It sucks, folks. It deserves tobe lost in oblivion because it has no, I repeat no redeeming features.Not only that, it could be reduced to 65 minutes (i.e. halved) with nodetriment to the storyline, emotional feel (don't make me laugh)oranything else. It is crap. Stay away.
Max_cinefilo89 01 May 2012
The Gekko's back!
If anyone could have something interesting to say about the 2008financial crisis and its consequences, it would be Oliver Stone,American cinema's prime troublemaker, whose first foray into the worldof Wall Street, with the eponymous 1987 film, was a sharp critique ofthe yuppie approach to money-making, though some failed to get thatmessage and viewed the film's main character, capitalism icon GordonGekko (an Oscar-winning Michael Douglas), as a role model. 23 yearslater, the filmmaker returns to that world with the unexpected sequelWall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and Gekko remains his weapon of choiceto tell us what went wrong.The only difference is, years in prison have changed Gekko: short oncash and estranged from his daughter Winnie (Carey Mulligan) after hisson died of an overdose, he nevertheless manages to get back in thespotlight with his new opinions on the financial system, recounted in abook that, in a shocking reversal of the original film's most famousscene, bears the title Is Greed Good? Needless to say, when the marketcollapses, those words become very vivid, particularly after LewisZabel (Frank Langella), one of the top names in the business, commitssuicide. Rumors suggest he was driven to it by the actions of theruthless and arrogant Bretton James (Josh Brolin), and Zabel's formerprotegé Jacob Moore (Shia LaBoeuf), seeking revenge, turns to thereformed Gekko for help. As it turns out, Gordon has very good reasonsfor getting involved: not only is Jacob dating Winnie, it also appearsBretton had something to do with his incarceration. And you know whatthey say about payback...Much like the original, Money Never Sleeps (a line from the first filmthat receives a different treatment this time around) presents itselfas a very classic story - this time, it's all about revenge andredemption - mixed with a potent look at the present economic reality.However, despite numerous smart references to the 1987 prototype (samefont for the opening credits, same closing song and, of course, acracking cameo by Charlie Sheen, who seems to have just walked off theset of Two and a Half Men), the sequel is a much more conventionalaffair: whereas the first Wall Street drew a lot of its power from arefusal to label single people as good or bad guys, this time Stonegoes to great lengths to emphasize who we should root for and who weshould despise. Maybe the fact that he didn't write the screenplay hassomething to do with it, as does his less angry approach of recentyears: it's hard to imagine the '80s Stone pandering to audience tasteslike he does with this film's ill-conceived feel-good coda (reportedlyadded after negative feedback at the movie's Cannes screening) and alargely pointless mother-son subplot (Susan Sarandon, playing Jacob'smom, doesn't really fit in).Lucky for us, then, that Douglas hasn't lost any of his edge: hisscreen time may have been reduced to showcase the younger talent (andit must be said LaBoeuf is less disastrous than some had anticipated,though he bears no comparison to Sheen), but from the very moment Gekkogets his huge cellphone back as he is released from jail, it's clearthat the "greed is good" man will deliver the goods, which he does withrelish and a kind of energy that's been missing from his work in thepast few years. Langella is also predictably excellent, and Brolin is acharismatic bad guy, but the standout is Eli Wallach, whoserecollection of the 1929 crisis - which the actor really experienced -is one of the few topical high points.If the first Wall Street was a necessary product of its time, thesecond one is an entertaining but slightly hollow attempt to do thesame thing in a very different climate. Then again, how do you get pastthe paradox of a subject like the recession being discussed in a moviethat cost 70 million dollars to make?
bobbynear 01 May 2012
pitiful sequel
SPOILER WARNINGI'm afraid I have to add my voice to the others who have made negativecomments on this film. I finally got to see it on HBO and just barelygot through it. An absolutely dreadful sequel.The story should have picked up where the first left off. I actuallyfelt sorry for Bud Fox at the end as he walked into prison. Now I findout that everything just went swimmingly and he's now a multimillionaire after selling the airline that was so much a focus of theoriginal story. A huge insult to all of us and an embarrassment toCharlie Sheen, as if he needed another one, in a cameo that had nopoint other than to wreck the character from the first Wall Street.Don't like any of the actors here. Really miss Martin Sheen who alwaysadds something in whatever he is in. Have no interest in the maincharacters this time around and I agree that Michael Douglas looks asif he can't stay awake and I don't blame him.Sequels are virtually never any good. Once you catch lightning in abottle, you don't go out and stand in a field in a rainstorm hoping youcan do it again without getting electrocuted. Oliver Stone did himselfand his reputation nothing but harm in this pointless, witless anduninteresting tale.
sabotschool-837-324259 29 April 2012
Charity and Corporations - What Do They Have In Common?
Like Shakespeare, this movie is insightful and significant on severaldifferent levels. Brilliant and surprisingly politically fair script.Fantastically creative, interesting and artistic cinematography.Sufficient soundtrack. Difficult to specifically follow the exactfinancial trading story, yet we understand the general premise. Wellacted by a talented cast, and who doesn't adore iconic Michael Douglasas the magnetic, charismatic, larger than life, good intended yet evilGordon Gekko? Scotch in a Bacarrat High Ball glass anyone? Fully expecting thorough yet liberal director Oliver Stone to bash evilcorporate America and Wall Street, especially now during our uglyeconomic environment, the giant green light bulb switches on when thescript speaks to the inner workings underneath large scale charity.What is true charity? The main movie theme states the world's greatestform of charity comes from the innovations of the 20th and 21stCenturies funded through the vehicle of Wall Street firms underwritingthe research and development, production and distribution of theseinventions and innovations thus making all of our lives easier andraising the global standard of living for everyone worldwide. Wow! Whata macro-conundrum for the politically progressive corporate and WallStreet basher. Yes, greed is one integral spoke within this wheel ofinvention just as old as the continual fight between good and evilwithin ourselves and our societies.One level beneath the main movie theme of charity is the love storybetween actors Shia LeBeouf and Carey Mulligan. History repeats itselfas crying, crying and crying Carey Mulligan's character is involvedwith a "Type A," ambitious boyfriend on the make very much like herfather, except nicer as she is in love with him but hates her Father.Hum.Another level of the movie is the financial story. The windup andunwinding of trades are complicated and hard to follow within a schemeof Derivatives, CDS's and planted rumors fueled by instantaneoustechnology. All the personalities involved in the financial story areType A personalities in every aspect of their lives and relationships.Susan Sarandon shines in her portrayal of Gordon Gekko's ex-wife whosuffers from her own self fueled greed fest as a former care-giving RN,now an out of control, gambling real estate agent. I guess she did notoriginally marry Gordon Gekko for nothing.Eli Wallach is cantankerous as the old guard Wall Street tycoon. JoshBrolin brilliant as Wall Street's modern day Belizubub.Overall, this "Wall Street Money Never Sleeps" movie sequel isenjoyable and one does not have to have seen the original "Wall Street"movie in order to enjoy this installment.
alferik 28 April 2012
A total treat. Perhaps even better than the first one.
Saw it at the 38th Norwegian International Film Festival, city ofHaugesund, late August 2010. It was screened twice there, both times inthe largest auditorium - one which had been upgraded tostate-of-the-art quality mere weeks before the festival (the Edda 1auditorium).The experience of seeing this film, even with all the expectations Ihad, was an utter thrill. I only give it 9 out of 10 to adjust formyself being transported to a state of exhilaration, and thereforeperhaps losing some critical faculties in the process.I love the first film and it's among the three or four movies I've seenthe most times. I've dabbled a bit in the financial industry myself(top Norwegian fund management firm) and politics, and I paid quite abit of attention to the global financial crisis that unspooled inOctober 2008 and onwards. Bail outs and credit swaps etc are handledextensively in Money Never Sleeps. Ironically, the city of Haugesundwas one of only 8 municipalities in Norway (there are 430municipalities in this country) to be hit by failed municipalinvestments in Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) - and it was theone that was the hardest hit of them all! So a bit ironic then thatMoney Never Sleeps was screened there first, for audiences in Norway(although with around 14.000 professional guests, including severalinternational stars, the audience was perhaps not predominantlyNorwegian).The soundtrack to this film is excellent, the visual style is pureperfection and very stylish, and the throwbacks to the first film arean utter thrill (if you've seen the first film recently, or severaltimes earlier, like myself, you will notice them all, and love them).Of course, having been in politics and the financial industry, it'shard for me to tell how this movie experience will be for someone whoknows little about either. But for them there's also the interpersonaldrama, and a love story. At the top of that, what they learn from thisfilm will be valuable, and a much better and valid introduction thanjust about anything else you'll come across.I will recommend this film to everyone. And it is so strong and sorelevant, that I believe that political strategists from both sides forthe US midterm elections coming up this autumn, will have to find waysof dealing with it, and pitching it to work for their side, some way orthe other. Mark my words: This is one movie that *will* be referencedto during the upcoming election season - and not only in America, even.It is that relevant. As one fellow festival attendee remarked at theclosing dinner of the festival though, the love story could perhapsbeen a bit stronger and more authentic. Judge for yourselves. Eitherway, it will be money well spent, and I doubt you'll regret yourinvestment!
jzappa 26 April 2012
The Heydays of Our Me-Decade Plutocrats and Their Twin Towers are OverÂ
Like The Social Network, Oliver Stone's 21-year follow-up is aboutorganizations and brutes at their helm, and the complexities ofhonestly deconstructing capitalism from within our virtual oligarchy.He gasps and gusts with images for the trade and industry void, even ifhis drama comparatively lacks the throb of recent documentaries onderegulated financial markets' puppetry of our state of affairs. As inW., there's the sense of a softening cinematic rabble-rouser.Notwithstanding, it's both endearing and horrifying to watch thiscontinuation, to see the crucial '80s model of beaming gangsterself-indulgence, Me-Decade artifact Gordon Gekko, downgraded to an itemof old-world diversion, for both the characters on screen and for wethe audience. Is this the guy---this out-of-the-frame member of the oldschool who looks in the glow of the Great Recession like a pettyoperator---who stimulated such pervasive concern, such pop-culture stirback in the day? How amazingly immature we were---in the Reaganomicsheyday of all times---about how much destruction the usurers could doto us.Gekko's back in Stone's regeneration of 1987's original, but only just.It's 2008, and he's already been out of prison for seven years, livingrather moderately on his book, Is Greed Good? He lectures universitystudents on how "the mother of all evil is speculation," that creditdefault swaps are the true weapons of mass destruction, that their (my)age group is screwed. Gordon today is, alarmingly, a voice of reason.And Douglas slips so effortlessly back into the role that even we whoknow him for a crook cannot help but be enamored while we've also gotour eye on him.Gekko just cannot expect to weigh against the treachery of the economicoffenders manning 2008 Wall Street, the ones he's now viewingobjectively. If JFK was Stone's tribute to conspiracy theory, then his18th dramatic film is his sketch of conspiracy reality, but dressed tothe nines as fiction, about the billionaires who see $120 million as amodest share and scheme to preserve the monetary muscle-flexing thatsustains them. It seems like some fearful vision when the Wall Streetpatriarchs sit around a Federal Reserve Bank conference table and plotways they can stop their own wrongdoing from taking them down with theship they so mercilessly shot at before, and get even wealthier in theprocess by inducing the government to pay their dues. Initially, Ithought Brolin's disturbingly unflappable manner as one calculatingbrokerage head might be the eeriest element, but what's worse is thatthere's no heroic figure this time to drive home that wrong wascommitted and someone must pay. Deregulation, derivatives, middle-classdevastation, all open to the elements. Few of us seemed to care much,until afterward, when we could pay righteously indignant lip service tothe problem.This is, in some ways, much more pessimistic than its predecessor. Thetwo Me-Decade plutocrats and the Twin Towers that conquered the skylineare all four pointedly missing here. '80s hostility has annihilated anemblematic backcloth and transmuted into a custom that's hardlynoticeable anymore. Even the few smudges of optimism in this sprawlingdrama seem peculiarly muffled and conflicted. Our supposed protagonist,savvy broker Jake Moore, has an idea he's been shopping to anyone withears, but unlike his 1987 foil, the eponymous half-man on ABC, whosustained a deteriorating airline and prevented blue-collar layoffs,Jake's a bona fide romantic in a world with no use for romantics. It'slike the film is implying, by the absurdity of Jake's optimism, thatimpracticality is an even tougher outlook to hold today than when italready seemed quite aloof and tricky.If the film's final moments wind up conflicting somewhat dissonantlywith what leads up to it, then, well, it's a dismissible flaw, as allthat precedes was so vigorously told by a visual storytelling master.The opening sequence stages present-tense New York as a place asvivacious and active as ever sans employing any of the customaryformula. Stone's sharp eye makes incisive points wherever he turns it,as when he concentrates on the jewelry glittering a Wall Street soirée.This is a very entertaining film, and a pretty upsetting one, too. Forif Gekko was a word of warning back in '87, should we take hisre-emergence as yet another prophecy of further economic ruin to come?
ds-642-274349 25 April 2012
Boring, boring, boring ... drama, drama, drama ...
If money never sleeps, and it doesn't, then I was seriously in dangerto falling asleep in this flick. Let me tell you I'm among the #1 fansof the first Wall Street movie 23 years ago, ... and I made millionsjust from the "lessons" learned in the first one. But this sequel,although it has a few scenes that are funny and interesting and thereare a few lines here and there that give you a chuckle, the film is aflop. I don't know what Oliver Stone thought about making this film theway it's made, ... it had so much potential and then it's such adisappointment and even unrealistic. For instance who in the world inour day and age has brokers on the phone screaming to get money fromretail investors? ... in the age of E-mail, texting and online chat,internet, etc.?Acting: Well, LaBeouf is okay, but just doesn't come across like a WallStreet trader, analyst or whatever, but at least he's likable ... andhere he goes promising a company a hundred million bucks, and he's evenpromoted to be (only for a short time) under today's hot Wall Streetshark (Josh Brolin). Brolin is actually doing a fine job, ... remindsme a lot of Pierce Brosnan all the way around, ... just waiting for theAston Martin Bond mobile. Of course the one everybody wants to see isMichael Douglas and he's back, ... often with the same lingo and lineslike 23 years ago. There's a surprise ending concerning Gekko, and it'scool. And Michael Douglas enjoyed himself in the role once again and hegives the movie the necessary fabric, ... at least to some extent.Gekko's daughter (Mulligan) character is a wacko crybaby (that's whyshe's probably called Winnie) and the character never takes off and thedrama is there like in a soap opera ... at times it seems like it's aBroadway play adapted for the sliver screen.Anyway, the style is missing, like there are no yachts, no cool carsand not really any cool digs, etc. like in the first Wall Street movie.There's so much potential to flesh out this movie and to give itsubstance. And the rehashing of the financial "crisis" is also so fakeand wannabe that it's laughable at times. And then the philosophybehind it in the lines ... gosh, give me a break. The world will alwaysexist of booms and busts and people just have to learn to live with it.The soundtrack is also not very good, ... it's not as coordinated likein the first Wall Street movie. Let's put it this way, Wall Street:Money Never Sleeps doesn't have an edge and Oliver Stone is trying sohard to constantly remind us that there was an original a quartercentury ago. And Stone does it with bringing back in cameo appearancesCharlie Sheen as Bud Fox and the cranky elderly Realtor in NYC, andsome of the other characters from back then with a shot here and there,... just for a few seconds. It seems like this new film has beenslapped together of footage here and there just to release a sequel,... there's not much craftsmanship in this one.As you can see, I'm disappointed as the expectations were so high. Willit stop me on my way to becoming a billionaire? No, but it sure won'tinspire me much to get it done. But then, perhaps I should have sentOliver Stone a check for helping me make my first million in the stockmarket due to the release of the first Wall Street flick.After all, and bottom line, Gordon Gekko is supposed to be the bad guy,but in reality he never did anything wrong and he's the most likablecharacter of both Wall Street flicks.
chris-barstow 24 April 2012
boring and extremely disappointing
this movie is very boring. though it tries to tell people how the stockmarket worked it sucked. i could not even follow the story line. theydid not have any explanation on what was going on. the actors were OKbut they did not do their job well. the only thing that was the leastexciting about this movie was the relationship between the business andthe relationship between the guy who was supposedly the star. i had totry and stay awake for the movie. it may be able to get the meaning outto business people......................................... thedirector of this movie should be ashamed of themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!to someone who doesn't know about this stuff would never understand it.and that is most of America
prebenr 24 April 2012
Just terrible. Not even worth watching!
Stone gave us a lot to smile about in the new movie. But we did notsmile because of the movie we are looking at, it's the memories of WallStreet from 1987 we smile about.Wean Gordon Gekko checks out of prison in 2001. We sit and jumps ofexpectation in theater seats while the legend is back silkhandkerchief, ring, watch, money clip in gold without money and cellphone from 1987 which is the size of a small expanded clay block. Onetime this phone was the epitome of high-tech luxury. Outside theprison, the heart sinks in the chest of Gordon where he is standingalone outside the prison gate, referred to the bottom step of theladder. The action jumps fast forward to 2008. Gordon has now publishedthe book "Is greed good?". Here Gekko talks about speculation as theroot of all evil. The new Gekko stands resigned and gives a verypolitically correct message that fits the general opinion. Only MichaelDouglas' excellent performances remind us of the film from 1987.In the chaos on the trading floor, we find the young and idealisticbroker Jacob Moore. He takes on the task of reuniting father anddaughter. Here begins the part of the movie that simply should havebeen deleted from the script. Just a lot of love, some tears, familydrama, etc. that lasts for about 1hr and 30min.Towards the end of the movie, when Gordon has just been so bad that weare about to rejoice again, Gordon talks in the new mobile phone andsays some lines to the fans from 1987. But the lines fall on stonyground, and Oliver Stone's salute to us is nothing but a scene thatjust does not work.Stone has succeeded in rendering a good Wall Street environment. Someof the characters in the film is amazing. But that's it. 85% of themovie was just some family drama, cry movie horrible combination of Ido not know what.Stone is going to have to go home and write another script. Gordon hasnever been and never will be a nice family man.Wall Street - Money Never sleeps was just the largest and most horriblelet down in the history of movie if you ask me.
ken558 22 April 2012
Started Out a Potential Hit Which Then Veered and Misfired
Good thing I am yet to watch the original 1987 Wall Street. Based onthe other reviews, my opinion of Money Never Sleeps would have beenadversely affected if I had. As it is, without the comparison, it isnot a bad movie, not a good movie, merely average fare.Started out very well and I was looking forward to a gun-a-blazin' WallStreet ride, but 30 mins in it became apparent it wasn't going to be.It veered off into firstly plain sentimentality, then into mere un-funshallow silliness.Poor plot aside, my main bug-bear would be the absolutely horrendouslymis-casting of Shia Le Boeuf. Shia unfailingly appears like a 16year-old stand-in while the "real" actor is away - a 16 year-old tryingto play the role of a hard-driving money man - poorly, unconvincinglyand plainly laughable. He is good for Transformers, but I have no ideawhy there is this continuous attempt to cast him as a man's man in avariety of movies, when he is but merely a boy's boy. Shia's silly presence cast a ridiculous and contrived pall over thewhole proceedings.I can imagine (since I have not seen the original) Charlie Sheen to bevery well suited for his Bud Fox role (i.e. if I can get his CharlieHarper character out of my mind), and carrying the movie and thedynamics with Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko into absorbing realisticterritories - however, Charlie's uncredited brief and unnecessary cameoin the current movie as Bud Fox trivializes the character and shouldhave been left at the cutting floor. What a waste... could have been that much better.... if I am now to seethe original perhaps I would wish this follow-up was never made. As itis, this is a very average 'boy pretending hard to be a man' sort ofwell-shot but not very well-scripted, neither-here-nor-there movie.
cmoyton 22 April 2012
Sterile film making at its worst
Of course i did not watch this hoping for a retread of the original.What would be the point of that? But all you are left with afterwatching this is two hours and thirteen minutes of further evidence forthe terminal decline of Oliver Stones career. The current banking/financial crisis forms the backdrop for Money NeverSleeps but is barely explored. The story is lumbered with relationshipissues centred around Gekko's daughter which only serve to slow thefilm down and dissipate what little interest the movie generates. Josh Brolin is served up as the villain but when the only victims ofthe villain shown on screen are fellow members of the financialservices industry this hardly generates much in the way of sympathy.Stone also adds into the mix the 21st century tee shirts of politicalcorrectness and environmental issues. Yawn. As all the leading actorsare horribly miscast contributing bland performances it's left toMichael Douglas to save the day. Alas an older and wiser Gekko is notwhat i particularly wanted to see and although he pulls off a sly trickthree quarters of the way through Stone bottles it with the redemptiveending. So in comparison, the original Wall Street was an engrossing rags toriches to rags morality play with characters you cared for including anunintentional anti hero. Money never sleeps is a corporate, empty,superficial snooze fest from a once great, but no longer, director.
bo jangles 22 April 2012
Incredible
This movie was all over the place and yet vapid and empty. Nothinghooks you in. If the picture was not high quality and "professional"looking I would give this less stars. Probably a 1 star.After watching it I thought I would rather have watched a biography onBernard Madoff or some other cable television show. At least there isdevelopment and the plot makes some sense. Wall Street is as ramblingas this review!The fact that it is rated as a 6.3 on IMDb will make me question theratings I see in the future. It's unfathomable that people are ratingthis 7,8, and above.
FlashCallahan 21 April 2012
Buy My Book!!!
Gekko is promoting his book, his estranged daughter Winnie is apolitical muckraker engaged to Jake Moore, a hot-shot Wall Streettrader, and an old nemesis of Gekko's, Bretton James, devours the firmJake works for. When Jake's mentor takes his life, Jake wants revenge and Gordon may bethe perfect ally. Can Jake maintain Winnie's love, broker arapprochement with her father, get his revenge, and find funds for agreen-energy project he champions?...A belated sequel to a classic film is sometimes uncalled for, but inthis instance, this film is very topical and one feels that it was onlymade due to the 2008 financial meltdown.The best thing in the film, Langella, is only in it for the openingact, but sets the whole story moving. And because Langella puts in sucha great performance, the rest of the film sadly goes downhill fromthere, but only slightly.For once, Labeouf is watchable, and isn't as unlikable as he is in hisother movies, but there isn't much chemistry between him and Mulligan,and as they are more or less the central characters, they sub-plot isquite boring and there scenes feel lethargic.Douglas on the other hand, is what you expect, a little more vulnerablein some instances, but still the man. And you can tell he knows thisfilm wouldn't have been made if it wasn't for him, as he swaggersaround in his scenes and is effortlessly cool whenever he utters aline. And kudos to him for making Gekko more human this time around.Whenever the more seasoned actors are on screen (Brolin et al), thefilm is electrifyimg and is as good as the original, but these scenesare few and far between and Brolin doesn't get as much screen time ashis character deserves.These are a few minor gripes though, the film is slickly made and hasthe Stone trademark to the film, but the yuppie thing is missing, andthat was a pivotal point of Wall Street.So all in all, it's a good movie, sometimes pretty pointless, but it'sgood to see what Gordon did next.The Sheen cameo is nostalgic, but feels very awkward and is pointless.