I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Too much of everything

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Before I watched this dreary lot of crap, I had the greatest respect for Oliver Stone as a Director. I read the reviews for this sequel on IMDb and I couldn't believe that Oliver Stone would make a dreadful movie truly deserving of the low score it had. The MO for this one seems to have been - take the star of the great original "Wall Street", stir in a cameo of the co-star of the original who's since been disgraced and who'd done nothing worthy at all since Wall Street, contact David Byrne for a soundtrack because the end credits of the original movie so effectively used Talking Heads' "Home", add a generous helping of Wall Street greed and corporate chicanery and voila, what do you have at the end of all this. The answer here is pretty much nothing. I feel really insulted by such sloppy film-making which was deliberately calculated just to cash in on the success of the original. Among its many, many faults, this movie at 2'13" was WAY too long, indescribably boring, self-important, unconvincing and an utter failure as any kind of entertainment. I was bored to death through the whole thing and I felt like the victim of a terrible manipulation based solely on the original concept that was so much better executed all those years ago with the original Wall Street. I will regularly and very happily watch the original in the future just as I have in the past. But, I am very glad I only paid about 5 bucks for this lot of crap sequel in a remainders bin at the local DVD shop. It's not a movie I will ever watch again. JMV

Perhaps because I did not see the 1987 version, I found this 2010 version a compelling watch. Perhaps because I was in private business and found the 2008 meltdown too predictable, I found 'just another' movie about greed a compelling watch. And, no, I did not find the main lady unfeminine as another reviewer apparently did. Carey Mulligan added a depth of vulnerability and sexuality that came across with good acting, not naked exposure. Beauty is, I suppose, in the eye of the beholder. While I have lost that admiration I once had for Michael Douglas, I found his and the other actors' performances most entertaining. I would be more compelled to give this movie a nine because its story and filming drew me in. I found none of it boring but maybe that was because I found the reality of its various characters too real in comparison to characters I met on both sides of that Canadian border in business life before this economic meltdown happened. Perhaps the movie is not so sincere because it portrays real tyrants as being made accountable in the end. That is yet to happen in the real world. But the irony is in what happened after I bought this DVD as a Blu-ray/Digital copy package as a 'collector's edition'. Yup, good old greed came to play as the Fox corporation made great promises on its packaging about how this movie could be played on all of my personal devices. And then Fox tried to shut down its use after I had downloaded only one copy with their special 'registration code'. As if I were in this movie, I had to challenge FDC about false advertising. Bankers. Business. False promises to the endless benefits we will accrue. Sad parallels remain in our world. Ironic that this is a movie about greed and what is essentially false advertising about the ethics of our big businesses. Oh, perhaps I should bump the rating up to 10 because, really, the movie expresses emotions about betrayal and dishonesty in such a pretty way that it is really a continuing statement of the hypocrisies of big business. That these people still have to be challenged to be true to their word instead of becoming just another proponent of greed? This movie should cause all of us to pause to ask: am I really just another enabling part of all of this? A beautifully filmed movie in interesting locations, if nothing else. But all else, especially the acting, came together to make this a movie that really mattered in the end to me. Fiction? Yes, I am glad that I bought the movie and after watching it twice to catch all of the hidden nuances, I do know that I will watch it again. After I cool down about Fox playing their own dirty business games.

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.

As far as modern Hollywood films go, WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS is all right. As a sequel to one of the best films of the '80s, it's a complete disappointment, with a watered-down script and even Oliver Stone off the boil. What happened to all the energy you used to find in his films? This one is sluggish and as a director he seems almost disinterested in the material.There are some good things about this film, but they're mostly the bits that reflect the first. Inevitably, Michael Douglas is the best thing in it, but he's given way too little screen time and there's a betrayal of his character in the first movie in that he's softened up this time around; he's not the Gordon Gekko of old. Josh Brolin's corporate bad guy is all right, but the two youthful leads, Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan, are absolutely horrible.LaBeouf is just out of his depth here and his acting stinks. The only film I liked him in was LAWLESS and all the rest have suffered as a result of his attempts at performance. Even worse is the single-expressioned Carey Mulligan's, whose perma-sad face is by far the most irritating thing in the whole movie. I almost had to look away every time she was on screen, she's that awful.The material starts off half-interesting, but the storyline takes ages to develop. The first hour or so retains the attention, but then there's a long, dry patch in the middle before things pick up a little at the end. Unfortunately, the final opinion I came away with is that this is a lazy cash-in, nothing more. A film that concentrated on Gekko alone without any of this kid stuff would have been much more gripping...