It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is the type of movie that should be watched more than once especially if you don't know a lot about Wall Street and businesses.The movie opens with the foolish myth of how humans came into existence. One of the main characters "Jake Moore" (Shia LaBeouf) is a wall street guy who is dating "Winnie Gekko" (Carey Mulligan) grown daughter of "Gordon Gekko" (Michael Douglas). Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps presents a few different scenarios and situations, some more important than others. "Gordon Gekko" just gets out of prison and works to make a name for himself in the world of finance again, "Jake Moore" attempts to reconcile "Gordon Gekko" with his daughter "Winnie Gekko", "Winnie Gekko" has the attitude of disliking the business of Wall Street, yet she dates a Wall Street guy, that was briefly mentioned, but never explored further, what was explored was the negative traits of "Gordon Gekko", "Winnie Gekko" clearly is right about how "Gordon Gekko" uses people, but she is unfair towards him in other ways, example blaming him for her brother's wrong path in life, people make their own choices and her brother was grown, you can't blame the parent for the grown child's wrong decisions.A reviewer mentioned that "Shia LaBeouf looks too young to play a rich wall street guy", being young has nothing to do with it, this character went to college and then went straight into the world of wall street earning lots of money and he made investments, it isn't unbelievable at all.The lyrical soundtrack is absolutely awful, but not as bad as to ruin the movie.The performances are natural and there is a brilliant scene "Not About The Money" where "Winnie" reminds "Jake" of what is important in their current situation, Carey Mulligan is fantastic in that scene, she reacts just like a regular girlfriend would react in that situation.The scene where "Louis Zabel" (Frank Langella) kills himself by leaning over into an oncoming train is disturbing, what makes it disturbing is when the screen turns to black and the people in the train station all give a horrified scream all at once, it is supposed to be effective, but it is just too much, if you watch this with headphones on, take them off during that scene or skip over it, the flashback of the piercing screams later on in the movie is just as disturbing.Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps story line goes back and forth between the relationships of the main characters and "Gordon Gekko" trying to get back in the game as well as "Jake" turning into "Gordon Gekko" himself, until "Winnie" gives him a wake up call by temporarily leaving him.The at times contradictory attitude of "Winnie" is never established as if she is supposed to be contradictory or if she is always right, but viewers can make up their own mind and it's obvious, but she is a likable character who can easily seem confusing to the viewers.Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps also shows viewers if "Gordon Gekko" is for real or not, at one point he seems to want to change and then we see that he hasn't changed at all, but then it all comes down to the question of him truly wanting to be in his daughter's life again or not. What is unclear is if they reconciled, or if he just did the right thing by her at the end and left it at that due to him not being there at the very end scene at his grandchild/their child's 1st birthday party.Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is a good film, but they failed to be clear on a couple of scenarios, unless it was intentional.

Oliver Schmuck regurgitates his first film about Wall Street.Gordon Gekko (Mikel Dumbass) gets out of prison and roams around bumping into erratic characters like his daughter, a young punk played by Sheeza LaGoof, and even Bud Fox (Charlie Stain), who is so different from the Bud Fox we know in the original film, they should have called him something else.Extremely boring and ultimately lost production trying to cash in on the success of the first film, Wall Street (1987).Pass on this dud.... and if you see Oliver Schmuck, kick him in the butt.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010): Dir: Oliver Stone / Cast: Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin, Frank Langella: Sequel to Wall Street, that seems to suggest ones wealth as a form of revenge or superiority. Michael Douglas returns as Gordon Gekko who is released from prison after activities in the first film. His only family is a daughter who disconnected from him but he may reconnect through her boyfriend who also works within Wall Street. Oliver Stone returns as director and is backed by a superb performance by Douglas who, as Gekko, is an anti-hero that viewers cannot help but like. He wishes to reconnect with his daughter yet he still plays the money field using her fiancé. Shia LaBeouf plays his future son-in-law seeking inside secrets but it will be at a cost. He agrees to attempt to reconnect him with his daughter. Carey Mulligan plays Gekko's daughter who struggles with her feelings towards her father. She is angry but she also questions LaBeouf whom she warns about her father's nature. The outcome of the love relationship is obvious and a weak point in the film. Josh Brolin plays the new scheming villain whom LaBeouf is connected with and whom Gekko plans to sabotage and dismantle. And the scene stealing Frank Langella plays LaBeouf's managing director. It has been over twenty years since the release of Wall Street and Oliver Stone points out that society has changed just as filmmaking itself has. That is one of the charms of this effective sequel. It demonstrates greed, corruption and the need to revive. Score: 9 / 10

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