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Wall Street
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 16 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Crime | Drama
Written by:
Stanley Weiser
Oliver Stone
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 11, 1987
DVD: November 7, 2000
Running Time: 125 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for profanity, nudity and violence
Starring Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Terence Stamp, James Spader, Daryl Hannah, Sean Young, James Karen, and Martin Sheen
Bud Fox has his sights set on conquering Wall Street. When legendary broker, Gordon Gekko, takes him under his wing, Fox figures he's on his way. But the road to success is paved with all sorts of corrupt acts that compromise his integrity and sense of self. Will he be able to get out before it's too late, that is, if Gekko will let him out?
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What The Critics Said
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USA Today Mike Clark
It's slick, melodramatic, even inherently trashy - but a blue-chip moviegoer investment. [11 Dec 1987, p.1D]
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Stone's most impressive achievement in this film is to allow all the financial wheeling and dealing to seem complicated and convincing, and yet always have it make sense.
Read Full Review >Empire Angie Errigo
As with Platoon, Stone captures the horrific essence of an environment and transfers it to us without the need for prior knowledge. Dazzling filmmaking.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)
Stone intentionally set out to make a good old-fashioned liberal drama about the evils of unchecked capitalism. This approach results in a film with few shades of gray and lots of moralizing speeches, but Stone nearly pulls it off through his usual visual verve and keen casting instincts.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Dave Kehr
The world of Wall Street is that of a lush soap opera-"Dynasty" with a moral. It gets the barn burning, all right, but it has no impact. [11 Dec 1987, p.A]
The New York Times Vincent Canby
Wall Street isn't a movie to make one think. It simply confirms what we all know we should think, while giving us a tantalizing, Sidney Sheldon-like peek into the boardrooms and bedrooms of the rich and powerful.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
Oliver Stone's Wall Street plays like "Platoon" in civvies. It's a good bad movie, unable to muster the moral firepower of the earlier film, but entertaining on the level of a big, bold, biff-bam-pow comic strip that likes high-profile high-rolling more than it perhaps realizes. [11 Dec 1987, p.45]
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jay Scott
Despite some casting problems, director paints a convincing portrait of a frenzied world. [11 Dec 1987, p.D1]
Washington Post Desson Howe
The film is best when Gekko and Fox power it up, but Wall Street falls into the red when Stone's heavy-handed moralizing takes over.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Rita Kempley
Douglas plays Gekko with a terrible intensity. He raves and rants, but he has a rascal's humor.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Julie Salamon
Wall Street is a silly, pretentious melodrama that panders to the current fascination with insider trading. [10 Dec 1987, p.1]
Time Richard Corliss
The entire film is in fact a ferocious meditation on the dilemma of a son choosing his father. Which one will Bud emulate: the noble failure or the triumphant sleaze? The outcome is never really in doubt, so streamlined and predictable are the characters. [14 Dec 1987, p.82]
Los Angeles Times Sheila Benson
Wall Street wants to be a shrewd piece of movie making, our own insider's tip, but it's tinny and thin and close to moral bankruptcy. As for its veracity, it's probably no closer to Wall Street than "The Bad and the Beautiful" was to the skills of movie making. And it's a lot less fun. [11 Dec 1987, p.1]
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
The sensibility of this movie is so adolescent that it's hard to take it as seriously as the filmmakers intend us to.
Read Full Review >Variety Staff (Not Credited)
Watching Oliver Stone's Wall Street is about as wordy and dreary as reading the financial papers accounts of the rise and fall of an Ivan Boesky-type arbitrageur.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
For all its hip, rat-a-tat dialogue and a sharp photographic look that give Wall Street a feeling that something exciting is happening, the movie's a bankrupt deal. [11 Dec 1987, p.E1]
What Our Users Said
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