Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Movie Reviews

Circa 2008. The setting is recognisable. Grappling with the subprime crisis and the crash of the Wall Street czars, the US economic horizon is bloodied, brutal and gasping for breath. Enter Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) the new age Adam Smith who redefined the wealth of nations, 23 years ago by articulating his million dollar biz mantra: Greed is Good. Greed is right. Greed works. He walks out of prison, a lonely man, with no one waiting for him outside

Wallstreet: Money Never Sleeps is a sequel that has come out 23 years after its original. The film is an American drama by director Oliver Stone who is better known for his blockbuster films like Platoon, Natural Born Killers, JFK and ofcourse the original Wallstreet. What you can expect from this film, well lots of boardroom meetings, stock market action, tid bits of romance and fatherly affection, an enamoring Shia LeBouf and a compelling Michael Douglas.

Twenty-three years after his expose of the unscrupulous world of the New York stock market, Oliver Stone reunites with his Oscar-winning star, Michael Douglas for this topical if somewhat heavy-handed sequel. With the subtlety of a sledgehammer, the director depicts the moral bankruptcy that led to the recent financial meltdown. Stone strives to dramatise the behind-the-scenes machinations, but is not nearly as effective as he was in Wall Street (1987)

Michael Douglas might be the first actor to get accolades and nominations for the same role twice. After his Best Actor Oscar win for 1987's Wall Street, he returns older, wiser and sexier as the corporate wizard/raider Gordon Gekko in the latest adaptation of the film. Joining him is young dynamic and highly ambitious corporate player Jake Moore (Shia) who's dating Gekko's daughter (Mulligan) on the side. After his company Keller Zabel

The world has come really far in 23 years, when the last Wall Street was released in 1987. Excess was the mantra then, downsizing the mantra now. Even Gordon Gekko knows it. So when he comes out of jail after eight years (having been put there on, among other charges, “insider trading”), he writes a book Is Greed Still Good? and promotes the same by telling his listeners how he was small fry compared to what the big sharks in the market

As sequels go, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is a curious one. It arrives more than two decades after the first movie and yet the timing is perfect. The global financial meltdown provides an apt backdrop for the return of Gordon Gekko, the iconic predator from the first film, who was originally written as a villain but was so instantly seductive that he became a role model. Money Never Sleeps begins with Gekko being released from jail

Greed is good,' he famously said more than 20-years ago in Oliver Stone’s 'Wall Street', and Gordon Gekko’s mantra clearly resonated with many in the business world, as the recent global financial meltdown has proved. A sequel set in the present day would appear timely then…Alas, 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps', directed by Stone himself, is too sanitized, too preachy, and ultimately a disappointing follow-up to that delicious film