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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
  
Preceded by:
Wall Street (1987)
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Directed
by:
Oliver Stone |
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COUNTRY
USA |
GENRE
Drama/Thriller |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
Wall
Street: Money Never Sleeps |
RUNNING
TIME
127
minutes |
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Produced
by:
Edward R.
Pressman
Eric Kopeloff |
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Written by:
Allan Loeb
Stephen Schiff |
Review
Drawing on the memory of the
1987 version, in which Oliver Stone
scrutinized yuppie culture rather successfully, this sequel looks and
feels good early on, as we meet Michael Douglas' devilishly good-looking
2010 version of Gordon Gekko and get to know a young couple and their
contrary connection to Wall Street and the money business. Carey
Mulligan plays Gekko's estranged daughter, and Shia LaBeouf is her
boyfriend and up-and-coming investor at Keller Zabel – an investment
bank helmed by his mentor Lewis Zabel, played with brilliance and
incredible devotion by Frank Langella. Up until this point, Stone keeps
interest and relevance high, combining flashy directorial choices with a
comment on the 2008 financial crisis. And as Douglas and LeBeouf become
acquainted, things look promising for both story and suspense, but it
doesn’t take too long to realize that the film's main plot setup is far
too forced and constructed to be able to work on a plausible level. And
when the construction starts to wobble, our attention is increasingly
drawn to the fact that the foundation doesn't hold. The Mulligan/LaBeouf
relationship is unconvincing, the conclusion is ridiculous, and Stone
ultimately loses track of what his film is really about. An unnecessary
cameo by the previously brilliant Eli Wallach, now too old and out of
his depth, is one of many distracting details.
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