Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps misses edge, a believable script and ditto characters. It is a missed opportunity at best, and a total failure if I am really honest. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box.
Where Gordon Gekko deals with life, money, and a busted hip.ok.not really, but you know. Jake works for an old-line Wall Street house named Keller Zabel, headed by his mentor and father figure Louis Zabel (Frank Langella). This firm is brought to its knees by a snake named Bretton James (Josh Brolin), who is instrumental in spreading rumors about its instability.
Read Common Sense Media's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps review, age rating, and parents guide. Despite being a successful Wall Street money maker, Jake is quite loyal to his mentor and idealistic about the green company he champions throughout the film. Michael Douglas in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Hollywood's legendary semi-recovering dosh addict is back; Oliver Stone has chosen this moment to revive the memory of pop culture's most famous banker. Suddenly, here was a movie about banking that looked like a thriller -- traders talked a mile a Stone returns to this world in "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Matt's review of Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which stars Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan, and Josh Brolin.
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The film never makes it clear if he's an analyst or a broker or a trader or a banker or what but he's a man out for revenge (which I suppose you could/should put. Like its predecessor, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is a melodrama, a contemporary morality play filled with big characters, corny dialogue, and In fact, the movie's central theme can be boiled down to three words: Money poisons everything. It's the mirror image of the most quotable phrase in the. "Money Never Sleeps" seems both up to the minute and behind the times.
Real world events have upstaged it. The economic fallout from Gekko-style malfeasance isn't merely grist for melodrama, it's a scary constant in our lives. Even Gekko, one of the great antiheroes of modern movies. I watched Wall Street right before Money Never Sleeps, and it's also worth noting that Stone has, perhaps surprisingly, dialed down the content in the sequel as well.