- Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
- Release Date: Sep 24, 2010
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100Among an excellent cast, Douglas truly is the nexus; he and Stone make this sequel pay off big-time.
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90That rare sequel that took its time -- 23 years -- so it not only advances a story but also has something new to say.
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88It's a wholly successful sequel - audacious, entertaining and bracingly pertinent.
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83"Money Never Sleeps" doesn't get inside the sociopathology of the money culture. In a sense, it is a product, an expression, of that culture. Maybe that's why it's so disagreeably agreeable.
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80With the woes of Wall Street constantly in the headlines, Oliver Stone could not have picked a better time to reignite Wall Street.
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80Has Gordon Gekko gone soft? The answer is, sort of -- a development that takes some of the bite out of Oliver Stone's shrewdly opportunistic, glibly entertaining sequel, which offers another surface-skimming peek inside the power corridors of global finance.
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78LaBeouf plays Jacob as no naif – he can be as slippery and savage as the next suit – but there's also real tenderness in his scenes with Mulligan and Langella (in a small but significant role as Jacob's mentor).
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75It's an entertaining story about ambition, romance and predatory trading practices, but it seems more fascinated than angry.
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75Stone has a knack for pacing, detail and atmosphere that manages to feel authentic and fancifully allegorical at the same time.
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75Whatever his motivations or deeds, Gordon Gekko is a classic screen character and Douglas is never better than when playing him.
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70A technically fascinating film that's best when it's angry, less good when romance rears its head.
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70And yet something vital here works. There are, come to think of it, a lot of little things.
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70Like Gekko, the film also feels urgent and strangely necessary.
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63Has its satisfactions, thanks mainly to a cast skillful enough to finesse what is effectively two films sharing the same screen.
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63The movie, elegantly shot by Rodrigo Prieto, is sleek and brisk, using split-screens and graphics to help uninformed viewers grasp the basics of the corporate shenanigans the characters pull on each other.
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63The movie is at its best when Gekko gets back into the game, with his impish smile and his perfect hair.
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63There are plenty of strong performances, and LaBeouf does a nice job of becoming the tough-skinned pragmatist. Mulligan is as earnest as ever, and Susan Sarandon and, particularly, Frank Langella make strong cameos.
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63The film's lack of focus is almost criminal, but schadenfreude energizes Stone.
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63There are times when iconic characters should be left alone to bask in the glory of a single appearance and, unfortunately, that's the case with Gordon Gekko.
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63It's almost kitschy - the way Stone injects himself into a couple of scenes, an eccentric Eli Wallach cameo, the inclusion of a Charlie Sheen moment that flat out winks at the audience.
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60This subject demands a Godfather Part II, but Stone and collaborators have turned in a Godfather Part III. There is a lot of good material, but LaBeouf nearly sinks it and we could use much more of the old Gekko brimstone.
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60A completely unnecessary sequel, plays a lot like "The Godfather, Part III"-lush, self-parodic and cut adrift from urgency.
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60It's an ambitious, uneven, surprisingly talky melodrama.
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58A lot of Money Never Sleeps - too much - is about Gekko père's desire to reconnect with his very angry daughter.
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58Starts well, builds drama and then proceeds to fly sort of crazily off the rails.
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50In its empty-headed hubris, it's not much more admirable than the conniving, moneygrubbing elite it's trying to take down.
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50Maybe money never sleeps, but this missed opportunity of a movie will have audiences dozing.
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50The film whipsaws between hyperbolic character study and preachy account of the recent financial meltdown. The two story lines are not well-integrated.
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50Greed is boring.
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50Saddled with this hollow script, Stone pads with elaborate set pieces.
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50A movie only a hedge fund manager could love.
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50"We're all mixed bags" is the conclusion of unwieldy mixed bag Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
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50If the bad guys didn't reappear with welcome regularity, "Money Never Sleeps" would be even more of a snooze than it already is.
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50No deep thoughts here; this is a product of shiny surfaces and glittering patter, the cinematic equivalent of a derivatives offering. Instead of whacking Wall Street, Stone gives it a poke that ends up as a tickle.
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50Mr. Douglas's performance in the sequel measures up to Gekko's rep, but the rest of the movie is pumped up to the bursting point with gasbag caricatures, overblown sermons and a semicoherent swirl of events surrounding the economy's recent meltdown.
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50The setup for this Oliver Stone drama keeps its iconic villain so far removed from the financial action that he seems like a dog tied up outside a restaurant.
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50The first time around, Wall Street felt like a warning about the perils of excess just as excess started to exact its toll. This one's little more than a reminder that we all got, and remain, screwed. Noted.
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40The sequel to an influential eighties motion picture is so loaded with characters and crosscurrents that we wonder why it isn't a thirteen-hour cable mini-series instead of an impacted two-hour mess. The film is like my portfolio: full of promise, with minuscule returns.
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38The pretentious title might be trying to make a statement about the new, fast-moving economy. It's also a weak reference to the first Wall Street. But mainly, no, it's just pretentious.
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"Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" is for the nerds who are obsessed with economics. However, its a decent movie even in money-looking standards.