Review of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) by Brian R — 26 Nov 2011

Oliver Stone's sequel of "Wall Street" is swamped with extreme financial jargon so complex it will make one feel not wanting to read a section of "The Wall Street Journal". Stone's movie is mixed together with betrayal, daddy-daughter issues, the financial collapse and a young hasteful broker who wants to make money and get married.

Stone's first "Wall Street" picure was a little bit more easier to understand and a little more engaging. This time it's a new era in a new century where people who work at brokerage firms is more greedier then the people were back in 1987. It's great to see Douglas as the iconic Geeko, most of the time he's gone throughout half the picture but to me Geeko is still the slimmy green bastard who's religion will always be money. Although Geeko would like to renuite with his daughter Winnie. Shia LaBeouf is in the Charlie Sheen role and Carey Mulligan plays Winnie (Geeko's attractive daughter) Josh Brolin as Bretton James who is a corporate raider and a complete scumbag.

WSMNS is very well shot but I do wish Stone's picture was a little more dark and more suspenseful, where audiences can really feel and understand the complexities of the econmic recession. If Stone cut the movie shorter it might have had significance. Ever since the recession hit the US, citizens still did not understand what was really going on. When the recession hit boy did it ever hit.

When the financial system was on the brink of collapsing in "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" I wasn't sure how to take it's impact but now since the recovery life goes on. The people of Wall Street will still keep repeating the same mistakes, buy large amount of stocks, cut corners and above all make money. As Geeko would say. "It's about the game".