Monday 26 March 2012

Wall Street : Money Never Sleeps (2010) 7/10

Starring : Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Frank Langella
Director : Oliver Stone
Running Time : 128 mins

Wall Street stock broker Jake Moore (LaBeouf) sees an opportunity to reunite his fiancée Winnie (Mulligan) with her criminal father, Gordon Gekko (Douglas), while simultaneously gaining assistance from Gekko to take down Bretton James (Brolin), the man he blames for the death of his mentor Louis Zabel (Langella).

This is a slow moving but likeable drama with Gekko finally proving himself a better person after his years in prison. Fans of the original will probably go in two directions with this; either they’ll love seeing Douglas as Gordon Gekko again, or they’ll wish Oliver Stone had left well enough alone. Once this gets going it’s a nice story about avenging a friend’s death and turning a wrong into a right.

You’ll like this if you liked : Michael Clayton



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