Review of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) by Smellycat — 03 Oct 2010
In the first Wall Street film, Oliver Stone made a very straight-forward, dialogue heavy film that focused on the business and dirty dealings of Wall Street stockbroker industry. And what we got was a film with an amazing performance from Michael Douglas surrounded with endlessly dull talking business deal scenes and a horrible performance from Charlie Sheen.
The film just didn't even make the characters likeable or dislikeable or even have discernable personalities. With this second Wall Street film, Stone almost goes the complete opposite way of the first, adding numerous unnecessary flourishes such as motorcycle scenes, crazy taxi drivers, and long shots of rich people's jewelry that really distract you from the characters.
Stone needs to find the balance. The acting this time around was good, and the chemistry between LaBeouf, Mulligan, and Douglas is amazing. It's just that I still don't care about the business talk, or even quite frankly, the stock market industry.
Maybe it's just that the topic of the movie doesn't interest me, but Money Never Sleeps was another disappointment.
This review of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) was written by Smellycat on 03 Oct 2010.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps has generally received mixed reviews.
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