Oliver Stone's sequel to his 1987 banker drama Wall Street, set in the current day as the world's financial markets hit a meltdown. Introduces Shia LaBeouf as a cocky Wall Street trader.
As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) is finally out of jail. He may seem like a changed man, but he still has his eyes on the prize and ends up partnering with Jacob (the boyfriend of his daughter - An Education's Carey Mulligan), to get back to the top of the money game.
Has 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.
Full reviewA male picture about male heroes, with phallic Cohibas (Cuban cigars) and motorbikes. Twenty-three years on, Oliver Stone has given us the sequel to the most unsubtle father-son parable in cinema history, theoretically rebooted for our new post-crash era, but in actuality just as saucer-eyed and uncritically celebratory about it all as ever.
Full reviewThat 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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The time is right for the return of Gordon Gekko, but making him a sidekick in a convoluted revenge plot, loaded with GFC history and allusions, stifles his totemic comeback. Less might well have been more, Mr Stone.
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Timothy Dalton was James Bond, Gabriel ruled the music video world instead of Gaga and Jennifer Grey dirty danced rather than with the stars the last time Oliver Stone let Gordon Gecko loose on the world.
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