Review of Wall Street (1987) by Jaime M — 25 Sep 2010
Nope. Never seen the thing in full before now. What I can also admit to is not knowing jack about the tricks behind Wall Street that fine-tune its clockwork. There's no arguing Oliver Stone's vision is probably accurate despite a few objections, nor the opinion "Wall Street" is truly one-of-a-kind. The film feels pivotal due to its realness and handling of issues others before it would have simply looked past.
Michael Douglas is sublime as finance wiz Gordon Gekko, spitting the excess of Wall Street's lubricant with a Hollywood underlying. Though Stone and co-screenwriter Stanley Weiser seem to inevitably empty the film's narrative into Gekko's apprentice Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen), preventing "Wall Street" from becoming an overbearing tell-all while in addition stopping it from being groundbreaking every time the movie gets really good. The layers of power are interchangeable, and Fox's rise brings back that of (but obviously not as great as) Ray Liotta's gangster acceleration in "Goodfellas". That's the thing about "Wall Street": it's leveled.
This review of Wall Street (1987) was written by Jaime M on 25 Sep 2010.
Wall Street has generally received positive reviews.
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