Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps recap

Shia LaBeouf is pretty good, probably the saving grace for the Transformers films, and Michael Douglas is, well, old, but I figured the two of them together would be worth Watching. Thankfully I was right.

Though the trailers played Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps up to be a thriller, it is nothing but pure, yet great drama. Being a Sequel to the 1987 film titled plainly Wall street starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen, Money Never Sleeps picks up as Douglas' character Gordon Gecko is being released from prison for his crimes in the former film. Just so happens that Gordon's daughter Winnie, played by Carey Mulligan, is dating LaBeouf's character Jake, and she is not too fond of Gordon for abandoning her family.

Matters complicate as Jake is intrigued by Gordon's past, and takes it upon himself to meet his girlfriends father face to face. The trailers once again played up the tensions in the association in the middle of Gordon and his daughter. Although this is a large part of the film, Winnie is not as hard or unmoving concerning the relationsship with her father as the trailers have made her out to be. Due to the seemingly uninteresting subject matter of the film, I can forgive them for being desperate to draw moviegoers with these tactics, Money Never Sleeps does have alot to offer that a trailer cannot summarize.

The main anTAGonist of the film, Bretton James, is played by a fantastic Josh Brolin. He was my popular character, but thats probably because his scenes were the only surely riveting ones of the film, with lots of build up and suspense. The pacing of the film is slow, and its probably just a bit too long. I would have also liked to see more Michael Douglas in the film, hes surely not here all that much.

This probably is not a film for everyone. It can get boring at times, as they tend to drone on about financials for extended lengths, but there is abundance enjoy here. I wasn't aware Money Never Sleeps was a sequel, but I enjoyed this film adequate to certify a Watch of the former Wall Street. I'm sure there are quite a few references I missed, so you may get more out of the taste if you start there.

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Bottom Line: Interesting, but now dated, "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" covers the same ground as its predecessor, adding the up-to-date Gfc woes in to the mix, but serves up no story to give its broad stateMents any depth or resonance.

The Good: If there was any need for a sequel to the thriving 80s flick "Wall Street", it would have to be the onset of the global financial crisis. Oliver Stone returns to the director's chAir and in many ways infuses the film with the variation between what happened in the 80s and the utter lunacy that occurred in the lead up to the Gfc. Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) is now released from prison, but no one wants anyone to do with him, together with his daughter Winnie (Carey Mulligan), who is in a happy connection with Wall street rising star Jake (Shia LaBeouf). Jake seeks out Gekko when the latter begins predicting a global meltdown on the financial markets when promoting his new book. Winnie wants nothing to do with her father, but Jake meets up with Gekko any way behind her back as he wants his help to exact revenge on tycoon Bretton James (Josh Brolin), who indirectly caused his Mentor's suicide. This is the setup for what essentially becomes a parallel prognosis between what happened in the 80s on Wall Street, and what happened in the lead up to the Gfc. On many occasions it proves interesting, particularly when Gekko provides his own take on what's happening. "I got nothing on these crooks!" he says at one point. Oliver Stone makes the film authentic with the use of actual locations on Wall street as he did on the first film. One of the most considerable sequences is when the chAirman of an speculation bank commits suicide by jumping in front of a subway train after having to sell his bank for a tiny fraction of what it was worth. "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" is interesting to Watch in the stateMents that it makes and works as a companion piece to the first film.

Charlie Sheen

The Bad: Oliver Stone has undoubtedly lost his edge with his last few films, and this one is no exception. What made the first film so good was the exploration of the connection and plot between Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) and Gordon Gekko. That gave that film its meat and the "Wall Street" stuff was interesting scenery along the way. By contrast, this film does not have anyone of real dramatic value going on between its main characters. They seem to interact with each other in a way as to only promote the stateMents that Stone wants to make. As a result, the film does not have much of a story to speak of where anyone dramatic happens to them. In the first film, Bud Fox risked his vocation and ends up going to jail with Gekko pushing him supplementary to oblivion; by variation Jake only gets pep talks from Gekko and has to worry about his melodramatic connection while seeking revenge for the death of his mentor, which is eventually delivered but in an undramatic way, and more as a succeed of the Gfc than anyone else. The handling of Gekko's character in this film is problematic. He was a clear villain in the first film, and making him a quasi-good guy this time out takes a lot of shine off his mystique. The Charlie Sheen cameo as Bud Fox seems more like a "look-at-me, I'm doing my cameo for Oliver" scene rather than adding anyone astronomical to the proceedings. Susan Sarandon's character is clichéd and two-dimensional, barely providing a face to the 'normal' man who leveraged themselves too far. And then there's the film's subtitle: the estimate '2' would have been far better. What is worst of all is that without that dramatic plot line with the main characters, the fictionalising telling of the Gfc in this film feels remarkably dated. We know what happened, we know what these guys did, and we know the result. This film is not telling us anyone we did not already know. As a result, the meaning behind Stone's messages do not have much resonance in the context of this film. This last point is considerable given Oliver Stone's credit as a considerable filmmaker of messages.

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