Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Plot synopsis:
In 2001, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) is released from prison on parole after serving eight years behind bars for insider trading and mail fraud. He leaves the prison hoping to find a car waiting for him but there is no one. He's alone.Seven years later in June 2008 during the time of the great USA financial collapse, Jacob "Jake" Moore (Shia Lebouf) is awakened in his apartment by his girlfriend, Winnie (Carey Mulligan). Jake turns on the television and there is an interview with Gekko on television. Gekko has become an author and a lecturer promoting his new book, 'Is Greed Good?' Winnie gets upset and throws the remote at the TV after Jake doesn't turn it off. Winnie is Gekko's estranged daughter and wants nothing to do with him. Jake drives Winnie to the airport on his motorbike and she goes off to gather investors for her online political magazine.Jake goes to work at Keller Zabel Investments, a Wall Street banking institution. He tries to raise more money for a fusion research project which will be a viable source of alternative energy down the line but the rest of the board doesn't agree with him. Jake is one of the firms top brokers and the protégé of its managing director, Louis Zabel (Frank Langella). Zabel has become disillusioned with the industry and doesn't understand how he can be told a loss is a profit. He gives Jake a $1.5 million bonus and tells him to spend it and keep the economy going. Zabel also encourages Jake to marry Winnie and have a kid since he knows that growing old isn't for the weak in this business and that Jake needs her.Jake goes out to celebrate with his best friend and buys Winnie a diamond ring. He mentions that Winnie doesn't really support marriage, given the outcome of her parents divorce, but Jake knows that she loves him and he loves her. His friend asks about rumors that Keller Zabel is in danger, but Jake brushes it off.The next day the company's stock starts crashing. Zabel doesn't come in to work so Jake goes and finds him walking his wife's dog in the park. Jake asks him if Keller Zabel is going to go under, but Zabel just tells him that he's asking the wrong question. The right question is: "Who isn't going under?"Zabel meets with the chairmen of the US Treasury at the Federal Reserve. He tries to arrange a bailout but he is blocked by Bretton James (Josh Brolin), a former businessman that Zabel had crossed eight years prior when his company was going under. James insults Zabel by offering to buy Keller Zabel stock at $3 a share (against its $75 trading value from a week prior).The next morning, Zabel wakes up and kisses his wife after breakfast. He goes to a news stand and picks up a bag of Lays chips and a newspaper. As the train pulls in, Zabel pushes towards the front of the line and jumps on the tracks.Jake hears the news on the television of Zabel's suicide as Winnie returns from her trip. She hugs him and consoles him before he proposes to her. She agrees to marry him.A few weeks later, Jake attends a lecture at Fordham University given by Gordon Gekko and hears what Gekko has to say about the current financial crisis. Gekko reveals that in his opinion the unrestrained speculation will cause a financial cataclysm, even though everybody is euphoric about the current financial bubble. After the lecture ends, Jake approaches Gekko and tells him that he's about to marry Winnie. They ride a subway train together and Gekko explains that his daughter won't speak to him because of her brother Rudy's suicide a few years prior over Gekko's imprisonment and social shunning over his father. Jake sees that Gekko has a photo of Winnie as a toddler and asks if he can have it. Gekko tells him that he will trade Jake for a more recent photograph of Winnie. Gekko gives him the photo and his card so that Jake will find him later on. He also tells Jake that Keller Zabel was in trouble the minute someone started rumors about them and that Jake should look for whoever profited from Keller Zabel's collapse. From now on, Gekko and Jake agree to make a "trade", so that Jake would enable Gekko to communicate with his estranged daughter, and, in return, Gekko would help Jake collect secret information to destroy Bretton, who ruined Jake's mentor. Thus Gekko reveals his characteristic philosophy of life, where every deal that he makes in return for something is nothing but a trade.With the help of Gekko, who is very resourceful, Jake does some digging and realizes that Bretton James profited from the Keller Zabel collapse. In order to get his attention, Jake spreads false rumors about the nationalization of an African oil rig that Bretton's company owns. The company loses $120 million and Bretton asks for a meeting with Jake. At the meeting, he tells Jake that he is impressed and offers Jake a job, making it clear that if Jake doesn't accept he will have a lot of trouble being hired anywhere else. Determined to take Bretton out and avenge Zabel, Jake accepts.Winnie and Jake go out to Long Island to meet with Jake's mother (Susan Sarandon), a real estate agent in financial trouble. She asks for $200,000 to float her properties. Jake gives it to her but Winnie tells Jake in private that she's only going to waste her chance again. She asks him to take her very expensive ring back because she isn't comfortable wearing something so expensive.Jake pretends that he called Gekko to have dinner and ask his approval so he and Winnie go to have dinner with him. During their re-introductions, Gekko sees an important business man and introduces himself, only to be brushed off as a nobody. Winnie realizes that Gekko hasn't changed his greedy ways and leaves the restaurant upset. Jake pursues her and she tells him that if he goes back, Gekko will destroy them.A few days later, Jake visits Gekko again at his apartment and gives him the photo of Winnie that he promised. Gekko tells Jake that his research pointed out that the Locust Fund, a private offshore hedge fund was betting against Keller Zabel. Jake explains that he was offered a job by Bretton James and Gekko tells Jake that he suspects it was James's testimony which got him sent away for eight years (more time than a murderer). Jake is confused, having assumed that it was Bud Fox who put Gekko after Fox's 1985-1986 insider trading trial. Gekko explains that Bud Fox got him on insider trading but that was nothing compared to some of Gekko's other activities that he was convicted of. He and Bretton had a falling out back in 1988 and, though he doesn't know for sure, he suspects that Bretton was behind it. Gekko asks for another trade: he wants to have a face to face with his daughter.At work, Jake is put on the sideline so that Bretton's point woman can take over a pitch to the Chinese businessmen. They are unimpressed with her pitch, stating that they are looking for the next big thing in energy. Jake swoops in and presents them with the fusion research he has been supporting. Bretton is impressed by Jake's initiative and is glad that the firm has made more money. However, the firm is in trouble but Bretton doesn't want anyone to know. The economy is slowly starting to crumble. Bretton hosts a fundraiser and invites Jake and Winnie. Gekko asks Jake to front him $10,000 so that Gekko can also attend and have another chance to reconcile with Winnie.Wandering around the party, Gekko ends up bumping into Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen, in a suprise cameo). Apparelty Fox did his time in prison and went on to build Bluestar Airline into one of the premier airlines in the country after his father's retirement and death. Fox sold the company and retired a multi-millionaire. He wishes Gekko well and tells him to stay out of trouble.Gekko approaches Winnie and Jake at Bretton's table but Winnie leaves when Gekko arrives. Gekko and Bretton exchange a tense conversation where Gekko implies that he has proof that Bretton is responsible for putting him away. Bretton gets uncomfortable but points out that Gekko is no one. Gekko leaves him to find Winnie. Bretton tells Jake that the Chinese are going to invest $150 million in the fusion research Jake has been supporting.Outside of the building, Gekko finds Winnie outside on the steps and they have an intense conversation. He tells her that she's all he has and she's his gal until the day that he dies. She hugs him and Jake watches them have their moment. Jake calls the head researcher and tells him that the money is on its way.Over the next few months, the USA economy collapses. The stock market loses billions during September-October 2008.Jake is at his apartment and tells Winnie that the world as they know it is over. Winnie tells him that is unacceptable because she is pregnant. Jake is floored but excitedly happy and kisses her.Numerous companies around the country are failing. Bretton calls Jake into his office and Jake takes a helicopter to meet Bretton at his estate in upstate New York. The two participate in a motorcycle race against each other and Jake beats Bretton. Bretton tells Jake that the money the Chinese invested is going into fossil fuels instead of fusion research. Jake gets angry knowing that Bretton is trying to sink the fusion research since it is not profitable, even though it would benefit the entire world. Bretton would be unable to control the source once the technology becomes known, unlike with the oil industry. Jake quits and tells Bretton to go fuck himself.Jake tells Gekko about what happened and Gekko reveals that there is a solution: Winnie has a trust fund account in Switzerland with $100 million which Gekko set up in the 1980s when she was born. He told her that once he was out of jail, he would need that money to reassert himself but Winnie reneged when Rudy died. While she has always considered giving it to charity, she hasn't. Jake could use that money to fund the research and save the company. But since Winnie never declared it, she could go to jail for tax evasion. Gekko tells Jake that he can embezzle it with his old contacts. Jake believes him and goes to talk to Winnie.At Winnie's office, Jake asks why she never mentioned the money. Winnie is shocked that he knows but Jake gets enthusiastic about the fusion research and tells her that this is her chance to make a difference. She agrees and the two fly to Switzerland. She signs the money over to Jake. Jake then entrusts the money to Gekko so that he can legitimize the funds for the investment in the fusion research company.A few hours after returning to New York, Jake gets a call saying that the money never arrived. He gets frantic but his mother interrupts him before he goes to deal with Gekko. She asks for $100,000 because of the collapse of the housing industry, but Jake gives her $30,000 and tells her that he cannot afford to waste any more money on her ridiculous real estate deals. He goes to Gekko's apartment and finds it empty: he's gone.Jake tells Winnie what happened and that he's been talking to Gekko for a while. She breaks off their engagement and tells Jake to leave: she no longer trusts him or feels safe around him. He leaves bitterly and tracks Gekko to England, where Gekko is running a financial company again with the $100 million he stole from Winnie and Jake. Jake propositions him for one last trade: Winnie gets her $100 million back and Gekko gets a grandson. Jake shows him the ultrasound of his son but Gekko, despite being moved, cannot let go of being someone of importance. He tells him that its not about money; its about the game. Gekko says that giving the money away is a "trade he cannot make." Jake leaves.Over the next few weeks, by using the previous information collected by Gekko about Bretton, Jake begins piecing together everything from Keller Zabels collapse to the economic bailouts being issued for Brettons company. Jake points out that Bretton owns the Locust Fund (www.locustfund.com) and puts the pieces together in one large information packet. He gives it to Winnie, telling her that it will put her website on the map for good as a legitimate source of information and that he misses her like crazy. He then leaves.Winnie runs the story and Bretton James is exposed. The board of directors kicks him out of the company and Bretton is forced to testify to his crimes in front of the Congressional Committee, who note that they previously had Brettons cooperation in the Gekko investigation. Bretton's career is over and he's left to the sharks. Bretton's board of directors, led by the elderly banker Julius Scherhart (Eli Wallach) goes to Gekko in order to start doing business with him in view of the new credibility Gekko gained through his London firm's astounding success. He speaks to his materialistic business clients in the language they understand and respect: by correctly predicting the coming financial collapse, Gekko sold the market short and turned the 100 million that he stole from his daughter into the incredible sum of $1 billion dollars. He proudly looks at his account assets; Gekko is a billionaire again.Jake sees the very pregnant Winnie walking to her apartment and helps her carry her things. Their son has been kicking and keeping her up at night. Jake feels his sons kicks and Winnie thanks him for the help but they do not reconcile. Gordon appears and tells them that he deposited the $100 million in to the fusion researchers account anonymously. Now that Gekko attained his aim of becoming a billionaire by using the money he stole from his daughter, he finally returns that relatively small sum. He tells them that they make a good couple and that hed like to be there for them as their father and a grandfather. He walks away saying, "What? Can't you believe in a comeback?"Jake kisses Winnie and they reconcile before the birth and, one year later, they celebrate their son's first birthday with a party, at which Gordon Gekko is also present.

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Review:
It almost looks like he doesn't want much hassle with his films after they come out.Wall Street 2 is such a disappointment I don't know where to start.
Jake bumps into Gekko at one of his speeches (the films finest scene) and the two form a mentor-protégé relationship that irks Winnie but allows Jake to benefit by plotting revenge from Bretton James (Josh Brolin, the films principle villain), suspected of being responsible for the suicide of Louis Zabel, a close friend and confidant of Jake.If the film sounds like a mess of relationships, then it is.
Also, during the ending Gekko's daughter's character consistency is shot to hell and she appears as venal as the characters against whom she rails.Those moments are especially disappointing because I believed that this movie had the potential to be Stone's best film ever.
I was looking forward to seeing what Oliver Stone & the ensemble he got together could do with an updated version of an even greedier Wall Street that was gambling with obscene amounts of money & making their own rules that the S.E.C. didn't do anything about or even try to understand it seems.I was very disappointed.
And I think the movie spent way too much time on the Jake & Winnie relationship played by Shia LaBeouf (wasn't that Glenn Campbell's name in the original "True Grit", well....maybe it was LaBeef) & Carey Mulligan.
Seeing Michael Douglas reprising his role as the infamous Gordon Gekkos is pleasing and putting his character in these modern times is interesting, as he is now no longer a huge name on Wall Street, and there are now crooks way more greedy than he ever was.
Even the music, aside from a few of the Eno/Byrne songs, was horrible; and the few "good" songs previously mentioned were used inappropriately over dialogue, etc.Whereas the first film was about morality, truth, the human soul and actual characters, this mess is quite literally about Wall Street and the financial crisis without being humanistic at all.
But it didn't work.A big chunk of this seemed more like a soap opera than anything else, as Jake (Shia LaBeouf) tries to reconcile his fiancé Winnie (Carey Mulligan) with her dad - none other than Gordon Gekko himself, once more played by Michael Douglas.
Stone has cast his movie well with Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin and Carey Mulligan to attract younger viewers, and Michael Douglas' return as Gekko can't help being a major lure.The story settles quickly on young proprietary trader Jake Moore (LaBeouf), who just happens to be in love with Winnie Gekko (Mulligan), Gordon's estranged daughter.
Background score is scintillating.To conclude, I would just say that go for it to experience Gordon Gekko after 23 years and of course the class of Stone in a movie on finance, thrill and banking and the brilliant camera-work!My Rating: 8/10Thanks & Regards.
Langella added steel and is a classy actor.Eli Wallach was embarrassing, and Charlie Sheen was comedic.Oliver Stone has clearly lost it, and his cameo at the computer screen probably highlights this.Overall, one of the worst sequels, and probably movies, I've ever seen..
The movie also reaches a logical climax and ending almost 30 minutes before the film's actual end, and then reaches another, then another, eventually leading the audience to wish for an actual end to the film and completely destroying any sense of satisfaction or closure that might have been achieved by tying off the film sooner.The story is fractured, the message trite and unimaginative, the camera-work is at times questionable, and Gordon Gecko is a mere shadow of the Academy Award winning character from the original.
Wall Street: Money Never SleepsThe reason money doesn't sleep, like the rest of us, is because it's too busy counting itself.And while the greedy investor in this financial drama slept in prison, he likely did so on his back.After doing 8 years for insider trading, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) finds himself released into a world where his former motto "Greed is Good" has proliferated into the markets' mantra – which explains why it's teetering on collapse.Meanwhile, Jake (Shia LaBeouf), a young trader, wants Gekko's help to solve his mentor's (Frank Langella) murder.
To end my comments on a positive note, Wall Street 2 does have one redeeming quality: in a down economy hitting Hollywood studio movies particularly hard, this sequel provided jobs to a lot of actors and craft people..
In WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS Oliver Stone delivers one of the top Rotten Tomato movies of the year.
There is so little story to tell throughout this 134 minute endless mess of a film that the viewers must resort to just ignoring the fact that we are being drowned in WallStreetSpeak and settle instead for watching the skills of such fine actors as Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Susan Sarandon (for a brief moment), Eli Wallach, and Frank Langella (one wonders why they ever signed on to this film if they read the script).
But watching the prison release of Gordon Gekko (Douglas) and discovering that his angry, unforgiving daughter Winnie (Mulligan) has taken up with a bright lad Jake (LaBeouf) who in many ways is like the father she loathes, then in a smarmy manner climbing back into the money game only to destroy any seed of conscience that might have grown from his incarceration and in doing so drive a wedge between Winnie and Jake is hardly the stuff of which memorable movies are made.
Why was Charlie Sheen in this as a cameo - it was like they wanted to parody his original character.Oliver Stone this is not your finest hour.Bad movie.
In 1987, Oliver Stone directed and co-wrote "Wall Street" with Michael Douglas as a super-confident corporate raider Gordon Gekko ("Greed is good") and Charlie Sheen as his young acolyte.
Other talent on show includes Frank Langella and Josh Brolin and even a 95 year old Eli Wallach.This is a glitzy production that includes another hard-hitting speech by Gordon Gekko ("Money is a bitch that never sleeps!") - this time savaging the irrational exuberance that leads to speculative bubbles in over-complex and opaque financial markets.
So a bit ironic then that Money Never Sleeps was screened there first, for audiences in Norway (although with around 14.000 professional guests, including several international stars, the audience was perhaps not predominantly Norwegian).The soundtrack to this film is excellent, the visual style is pure perfection and very stylish, and the throwbacks to the first film are an utter thrill (if you've seen the first film recently, or several times earlier, like myself, you will notice them all, and love them).Of course, having been in politics and the financial industry, it's hard for me to tell how this movie experience will be for someone who knows little about either.
Stone's movie introduced audiences to a world that was largely alien to many-, a world hidden inside the Ivory Towers of our financial institutions- and more significantly, to the people behind these institutions whom his lead character Gordon Gecko represented."Greed is good!" said Gordon, a by-now iconic line that no doubt inadvertently served as inspiration for stock traders since then.
More than twenty years after Wall Street (1987), director Oliver Stone brings Gordon Gekko back to the big screen.
Michael Douglas reprises his screen-stealing role as Gekko, and is one of many talented actors who make up the strong cast, which include Carey Mulligan (An Education, 2009), Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon, 2008), Josh Brolin (No Country For Old Men, 2007), and Shia LeBeouf (Transformers, 2007).
Charlie Sheen, who played Bud Fox, a lead character in Wall Street, also makes a cameo appearance.Money Never Sleeps is, in my view, a more entertaining picture than its prequel, which is occasionally quite dull although it remains to be an important film.
In a way, Money Never Sleeps could be described as a conventional love story set in the backdrop of the recent global financial meltdown that left many fuming over the unethical behavior of (mostly Western) big-shots who handle and trade greenbacks for a living.In Wall Street, Gekko was the epitomized figure of greed, played with charismatic vigor by Douglas.
Back in 1987, director Oliver Stone's financial drama WALL STREET turned out to be a very prescient critique of the Reagan era's legacy of greed and excess, personified in the character of corporate raider extraordinaire Gordon Gekko, played to an Oscar-winning tee by Michael Douglas.
Twenty-three years later, Stone returned to the world of high-stakes finance for his first-ever honest-to-goodness sequel, WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS; and he and Douglas have resurrected Mr. Gekko.
Though there's a little bit of the old Gekko in him, Douglas is more intent on getting revenge on Brolin, while at the same time attempting to save LeBeouf from going to prison, and getting back on good terms with Mulligan.Stone's commitment to character and plot, redolent in all of his best films from PLATOON through the original WALL STREET to JFK, NIXON, and WORLD TRADE CENTER, is very evident here in MONEY NEVER SLEEPS; and as he shows, the high-stakes casino that Wall Street was in the Reagan era has now grown into a high-tech monster that, in 2008, was threatening to swallow all of America whole.
LeBeouf and Mulligan do good turns here, as does the legendary Eli Wallach in a prominent cameo role (amusingly, LeBeouf's cell phone rings with the theme from THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY, the legendary 1967 Sergio Leone spaghetti western in which Wallach played a bandido).Just like the original, WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS will likely be seen as emblematic of its time--a film that saw America's hubris bite the nation and the world on its behind, but where a couple of decent people did the right thing to avoid the ultimate financial abyss..
"greed, for lack of a better word, is good." The classic line delivered by the wicked financial wizard Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's 1987 classic Wall Street has become immortalised as one of the most popular movie quotes in the history of American cinema.
Unfortunately, there is nothing memorable in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) is out of federal prison, following eight years of incarceration for insider trading.
I will tell you why.Firstly, Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas always said they were amazed that Gordon Gekko was an inspiration for many a man to take up a job on Wall Street.
Instead, this is a fictionalized fable of love, loss, and vengeance that is nicely interwoven within the contemporary financial meltdown.The movie actually has little connection to the first Wall Street, besides the character Gekko and thus should not be seen as a sequel but rather as a story onto itself concerning the recent financial crisis's affect on the elite financiers.
After a 23-year wait Oliver Stone has made his first sequel ever to his 1987 film Wall Street.
With recent events involving the banking crisis, sub-prime mortgages and toxic debt a film with Gordon Gekko is timely.Set in 2008 just before and during the financial crisis Jacob Moore (Shia LaBeouf) is a ambitious young trader who specialised in investing alternative energy.
And well, Brolin has been a strong actor for a years and his performance was good.Stone had an interesting approach to directing this film: the camera work that Rodrigo Prieto used was effective, moving at the camera at just the right time to reflect an emotion or keep a scene of continuity.
I liked the original Wall Street very much, mainly because of its energy and its strident critic against the personal and professional excesses from the North American financial leaders, but I could not understand some elements from the screenplay very well, due to the fact I am not very familiarized with economic issues.The financial jargon in the sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, is more comprehensible (at least in my case), because it revolves around the worldwide economic crisis from 2008, which keeps being felt to nowadays.Besides, I have to say I liked this fascinating sequel a bit more than the original film.I generally like the work of director Oliver Stone very much, but I have been disappointed by some of his movies.In his most "mature" (translation: bland) works, such as Nixon, Alexander and W., I did not find any traces of the maniac energy and aggressive style from his best films (which are, in my humble opinion, JFK, Natural Born Killers and The Doors).Fortunately, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps shows us to Stone in a much better shape, which is relentless but precise and perfectly modulated, at the same time he is able to hypnotize us with almost every scene, and to keep us in suspense with the help of sharp dialogs full of meaning and emotion.I think the best elements from Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps are its intelligent screenplay and great performances.Michael Douglas brings an extraordinary work, because he perfectly shows us the multiple facets from his character on a credible way.Shia LaBeouf had left me impressed with his performance in the film A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, and he also brings a perfect performance in here.And I also liked the performances from Josh Brolin and the great Frank Langella very much.I will refuse to mention the message from this film in here.Suffice to say is that the moralist angle is well mixed with the experiences from the characters and their intense emotions, so we never feel that we are being given ethic lessons.The only thing I can say against Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is that I found the scenes with Susan Sarandon to be a little bit unnecessary.Nevertheless, that does not avoid me from enthusiastically recommending this excellent movie, because this is definitely first-class entertainment, something we are unfortunately not very used to find in modern cinema..
She too has taken up the Gekko Gospel of Greed Is Good and takes a tumble for her efforts.Oliver Stone has done what some consider impossible and made a successful sequel to a classic film with Money Never Sleeps.
There were many instances with the release of Gordon from his jail sentence, where his second career as a writer/sought after speaker (only in America folks) brought about opportunities for the character to serve as a mouthpiece of caution in today's world.There's a new protagonist in the film in Jake Moore, played by Shia LaBeouf, who's very much into alternative energy markets and has a hand in the investment and development of one such nuclear fusion farm.
Unfortunately the investment bank he works in goes belly up causing the demise of his much respected mentor Louis Zabel (Frank Langella), Jake swears revenge against Josh Brolin's Bretton James, another head honcho banker in a rival firm, and if you've not been listening attentively, or are not remotely familiar with the financial terms being mouthed around, you're more than likely to find it hard pressed how this link was made to position Jake and Bretton as rivals.Gordon Gekko enters the picture because of Jake's fiancé Winnie (Carey Mulligan), Gekko's daughter, and through a potential in-law relation, both men who see so much similarities in each other, especially the older in the younger's fire in the belly, forge a trade of sorts where Gekko provides much needed inside research and knowledge to Jake in exchange for opportunities set up to reconcile with his estranged daughter.
Rounding up the star studded billing is Susan Sarandon as Jake's mother, a real estate agent caught up with multiple housing mortgages and serving as the precursor to inevitable trouble.Rumoured to have had its ending edited after reactions in Cannes, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps hit plenty of right spots in delivering a relevant followup film on the financial markets of today.
When Zabel commits suicide, Jake's world is thrown into chaos, but he's overlooking one thing, his fiancé Winnie (Carey Mulligan) is the daughter of recently released former Wall Street hot shot Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), who's out to rise back to the top by whatever means.You would have to have been living on planet Mars for the last few years not to have been hearing and reading about the global recession that's seen the world plunged into financial meltdown and seen many homes and businesses re-possessed.
Life and Debt this film is not.Douglas plays an aged Gordon Gekko pretty much straight down the line.Shia LaBeouf as Jake Moore is fine in terms of performance, but script-wise a Wall Street guy working to save the planet through clean energy is a hard sell.
It seems likely that Michael Douglas would reprise the role that won him an Oscar, but being so long away from the role you wonder how can he get back into character, well i guess it is like riding a bicycle.Jake Moore(Shia LaBeouf) is a Wall Street traitor, engaged to Winnie Gekko(Carey Mulligan) Gordon's daughter, she wants nothing to do with, cause she believes his lust for greed destroyed the family.
The much anticipated sequel to the 1987 original has Oliver Stone back in the director's seat and one of the most iconic characters in movie history, Gordon Gekko, being released from prison.
In Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps an effort is made to humanize Gordon and though I found some of his actions out of character, the idea that people can change seems to be a big message behind the film.
Craig Armstrong's Music is good.Acting Wise, 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps' belongs to Michael 'Gordon Gekko' Douglas from start to end.
'Money Never Sleeps' is a sequel to the earlier film, and this time, Stone sets the story against the backdrop of the actual financial crisis of 2008.
Michael Douglas has another go as Wall Street crook Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street - Money Never Sleeps" from 2010, directed by Oliver Stone.