Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Great directing, excellent acting performances, Shia is faultless and Michael Douglas desperately needed Gekko for his comeback, but somehow I’m not sure we really needed another Wall Street. Nevertheless, Stone is good at comebacks. You’re all fucked. You may not know it, but you are the N.I.N.J.A. generation. No income, no job, no assets. You have a lot to look forward to. (03/12/2010)

I would have expected a slightly more aggressive script from Oliver Stone, but most things can still be absorbed quite well. I would have appreciated less Shia LaBeouf and more Michael Douglas. The love storyline is not a problem and fits excellently into the concept. Making the entire film only about an imaginary bubble wouldn't be particularly valuable. Excellent camera work and a tribute to modern times. Completely different from the first film, but twenty years is after all a long hiatus. (09/10/2010)

For me, as a Czech viewer, this film was quite difficult. I couldn't predict the situations, I had no idea how the film would turn out. You get lost in some concepts at times, but then a single gesture from Shia LaBeouf helps you find yourself. His character here shows his love of money perfectly. His eyes light up every time it is mentioned. I'm glad Shia's partner was Carey Mulligan instead of some long-legged blonde. Carey gave the film a bit of humanity. The only thing that bothered me about the movie was the "flying camera". That is, the shots where the camera licks the skyscraper from the top down and back. The viewer’s eyes glaze over and they get dizzy. At times like that, my head dropped and I got bored. (19/10/2010)

It's like flipping through the Wall Street Journal and Woman's World. The former spouts a lot of financial terms, the latter a bland romance. I don't understand the former and I’m not enjoying the latter. And speed-up shots of Manhattan aren’t directorial finesse anymore, Oliver. I give it three shareholder points solely for the good actors. (12/11/2010)

It's actually a fairy tale with a capitalist spirit. Oliver Stone continues to delve into intrigue and the possibilities of the stock market, but there's much more of a human aspect here, which is idealized to some extent, but contrasted with how people are corrupt and bad. It says something about us, and it says it quite well. (22/06/2017)