Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

"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."

"A 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."

"That rare sequel that took its time -- 23 years -- so it not only advances a story but also has something new to say."

"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."

"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."