Instant Favorite.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

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.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Michael Douglas richly deserved his Academy Award for his memorable role as Gordon Gekko, the king of Wall Street. Charlie Sheen should have been nominated for his performance as Bud Fox, a young inspiring and ambitious trader. Martin Sheen played Bud's father. The cast is first rate with Daryl Hannah, Sean Young, John C. McGinley, Hal Holbrook and others in this Oliver Stone production. The director makes a cameo in there too. The film was done entirely on location in New York City and the twin towers were still at the foot of Manhattan. It's a great story to show for those interested in working in the financial industry about what and what not to do. The film was dedicated to Oliver's father, Louis, who was a stockbroker.

"Wall Street" was made in 1987, by writer and director Oliver Stone and starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Darryl Hannah, and John C. McGinley. A young stockbroker after months of persistence finally bags the big fish, Gordon Gekko, a man whose presence and lifestyle he idolizes. He shuns his blue collar background in pursuit of greed and impatiently engages in illegal insider trading. The 80's was characterized by hotshot young executives looking for the quick and easy buck, and Oliver Stone portrayed that very well here. Gordon Gekko is the benchmark corporate villain, someone who one see's the world only in shades of green. The acting in this movie is first rate, especially from Michael Douglas. The long lines of dialogue, the speeches, and the emotional undertones are a challenge for any actor, and all involved here did an excellent job. I often watch "Wall Street" just for the acting.Probably an undervalued asset to this film is one of my favorites, John C. McGinley whom you'll remember as one of the Bob's from Office Space and his role of Dr. Cox on Scrubs. Always there to heckle and mock his good friend and has some of the best one-liners in the movie. Actually three of the main five lines people quote from this movie can all be attributed to this character he developed. The dealing room-scenes are some of the most exhilarating scenes in the history of cinematography. Spielberg sucked in audiences with his scenes of Normandy's beaches in '44. Stone creates the same spellbinding grip on the audience without getting anybody shot or brutally maimed. That alone is a great achievement for any director in Hollywood. Honestly, everything about this movie seems to work perfectly, in closing, I would like to praise Wall Street for being such a great film. An absolute masterpiece of 80's filmmaking and one of the best films ever made.Overall rating: 9 out of 10.

Charlie Sheen stars in this brutal 'coming of age' movie with a Freudian twist. Minor roles are played by Martin Sheen and Daryl Hannah.Michael Douglas (in a role better suited to Ben Affleck) makes an occasional appearance as 'Guy with Abnormally Large Phone' (I'll leave you to join the psychosexual dots on that one).Sheen Jr provides an angsty performance as the young man struggling with an unresolved Oedipal complex. Sheen Sr is excellent as the rough, gruff union geezer who loves Sheen Jr so deeply that he almost treats him like a son (z0mg art imitating life!) Hannah is utterly forgettable as the irrelevant blonde bimbo. Douglas plays some random guy that Sheen Jr knows from work.Dramatic tension is provided by the filial tension between Sheen Jr and the two father figures striving for his love (Douglas and Sheen Sr). Hannah's character tries to seduce him away, but he ultimately rejects her heterosexual advances and retreats into androgyny.The climactic showdown between Sheen Jr and Douglas is replete with Freudian symbolism. I found it very moving.I rate 'Wall Street' at 26.64 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as a solid 8/10 on IMDb.

Normally I would write a commentary on a movie within a few days of seeing it, however I have made an exception to this film because I really don't want to go through the bother of trying to find it again, and then sitting through two hours that the film takes to reach its conclusion. It is not that it is a bad movie, but rather it is a movie that I am not really all that interested in watching again. The only reason that I ended up watching this movie again (I have seen it twice now) was because I wanted to watch it before watching the sequel.We all know what this movie is about, and in fact this movie ended up creating a culture on Wall Street, with the style of shirt that Gordon Gecko wears being called a Gecko, and the phrase 'Greed is good' being bandied about. What is generally forgotten though is that the actual phrase is 'for lack of a better word, greed is good'. Rather surprising coming from a film whose intention is to actually criticise the casino culture of Wall Street, and the fact that people are stepping over the boundaries of illegality for the sack of greed. I guess though that the Wall Street millionaires that ended up watching this film probably did not see their actions actually being illegal (even though, like Gordon Gecko, they were practising insider trading and asset stripping companies – acts which in the end put Gordon Gecko behind bars).Unlike the sequel, which was made in response to the Global Financial Crisis, the original was made during one of Wall Street's hey days, when the market was going up and many people believed that the sky was the limit. However within a year the entire edifice would end up coming under strain when the Savings and Loans scandal hit and caused a stockmarket crash, followed by a recession, in America. Still, nobody learnt from their mistakes, and even before the crash on 08, there were a number of other crashes (and recessions) that preceded it.The other problem with films criticising Wall Street is, as I said, the Wall Street bankers generally do not take much notice of it, and those who do, generally do not have much influence to actually do anything about it. On the other hand those of us plebs who watch this film are reminded that those people in their ivory towers may be living the good life, but it does not last forever, and sometimes, having a clear conscience, is much better than having more money that you know what to do with.