Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

A lot of fun.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

MONEY NEVER SLEEPS has "wasted opportunity" written all over it. An examination of the recent financial crisis, if handled properly, can make for good drama (MARGIN CALL, as an example). But Stone populated his movie with leaden actors and this thing lacks any actual drama. It just lumbers on for two hours, never picking up steam (even with a motorcycle chase). Elder statesmen Frank Langella and Eli Wallach aren't given much to do, ceding most of the film to Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan and Michael Douglas. In Douglas' defense, Gekko's neutered in this movie, even in his villainous betrayal. Stone had all of the fire written out of the character. And not to gang up on LaBeouf, but his character is am insufferable jerk (Mulligan's, too, to some extent), so their drama doesn't hold water.The real problem here is that it bears the WALL STREET name. Erase the name Gordon Gekko from this movie, and there'd be no ties. The original movie was foremost an engrossing drama wit a fiery villain - the beauty of this is that it eventually became about something in a larger context (greed). It wasn't topical. But here, Stone dusts off the Gekko character to sermonize about how greed is bad. The moralizing gets old, very quickly. Stone also decides to throw Bud Fox under the bus with a throwaway two-minute cameo from Charlie Sheen, all in the service of emphasizing how bad the Josh Brolin character is.MONEY NEVER SLEEPS was awful, and it's devoid of everything that made the original great.4/10

It was generally good . There's some stuff boring but also there's quite really good stuff too . A lot of good stuff more and more from Michael Douglas and a perfect combination with Shia Labeouf brought out this story about Wall Street about who money goes around and the daughter-father away relationship hadn't seen each other in years Michael left her $100 million dollars in a Switzerland account which she doesn't want to get it . Meanwhile Shia at work his boss Louie dies by making suicide after the company is almost in bankruptcy and he works with Bret he brings his company down while Douglas take the $100 million makes a fortune to $1.1 billion and his daughter is pregnant Shia and his girlfriend broke up for a little while and they get back together at the end with also Douglas who realizes he has a grandson coming .There was really a lot of drama which I loved about that and great performance by Douglas & Shia also Carey Mulligan . Definitely got to see the first one to know which one is better . 6.8/10 this movie it wasn't that bad :)

It's 2008, 7 years after Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) got out of prison, and he's hocking his book. Meanwhile Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf) is trying direct investments into a new energy source. But the financial crisis is crashing his own workplace Keller Zabel Investments. His mentor Louis Zabel (Frank Langella) commits suicide. Jake marries Winnie Gekko (Carey Mulligan), and teams up with Gordon Gekko to bring down Bretton James (Josh Brolin) who destroyed his mentor.This feels fake. There are better and more realistic and quite frankly documentaries about the 2008 financial meltdown. Others have explained it better. Hearing Gordon Gekko talking about it is like somebody trying to make poetry out of finance. The problem is that Oliver Stone is trying to inject a fictional story into something that's all too real. It amounts to a whole lot of meaningless gobbledygook. The story is nothing but trash. All that we have left to watch for are some fairly good performances.

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPSIt was as good as the original.Again, there were moments I didn't understand, but not as much as the first one. I followed this one a bit more, but this film is also more about their personal lives and not just the stock exchange.Original cast member Michael Douglas returns as Gordon Gekko. And he really didn't change much. He is still very much an unlikable character and he does not care who he crushes along the way. This time he decides the person to take him to where he wants to go is Shia LaBeouf, who is marrying his daughter and a successful Wall Street guy.Other cast members were Carey Mulligan, Frank Langella & Josh Brolin.The acting was very good... and the story was slightly better than the original.It was great to see Charlie Sheen make a cameo too... I was wondering if he would show up. I am glad he did. It was also really funny at the beginning when Gordon got released from prison, he was getting his possessions back. He got a massive 80's mobile phone. :)I will give this film 6 out of 10.It was enjoyable and a bit easier to follow than the original.For more reviews, please like my Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204?ref=hl