Review of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) by Asif K — 13 May 2011

I just loved this movie, so interesting to watch, excellent performances by Carey Mulligan, Shia Labeouf, frank Langella and josh Brolin. Michael Douglas was good too but not as much as he was in the first movie ofcourse.

Susan sarandon and sheen in cameo, wow. Stone handles the financial stuff quite well. This movie is by turns brilliant and dumb, naive and wise, nowhere near good enough and something close to great. "Money Never Sleeps" is never boring, even as its plot descends into cheap melodrama and the script runs out of banter about the "the NINJA generation - no income, no job, no assets.

"If you havn't seen the original Wall Street, you better. Its a masterpiece, in Oliver Stone's hey day, the iconic movie of the 1980's yuppie lifestyles of the rich and shameless. This sequel can be entertaining, but it's flat, the whole concept I think was too complicated for the masses, I would understand if it was too hard to follow for many.

It wasn't spectacular in any way, but I didn't like its bluntness and how relationships were explored, and it was not until the latter part of the movie when the whole plan is revealed would you get to appreciate the whole "con".

Oliver Stone's direction is certainly apparent throughout this film. From a technical standpoint, Stone, along with Scorsese among others, is very much known for the way he edits his films. He is also known for the ways in which he utilizes multiple types of cameras and filming techniques.

Here the film feels quite slick in the way Stone uses his rapid fire cityscape shots as a way to draw out stock market graphs on top of skyscrapers, as well as how he portrays the Wall Street of today with all the fancier technology that is in use.

Well-crafted with intelligent direction by Oliver Stone, and extraordinary cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto. A eminently watchable and captivating film, that guarantee's cinematic satisfaction. Highly Recommended.

loved it.