"Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" (2010) is a great movie in surprising ways, not obvious, but worth thinking about!
First, it's different than the excellent and deservedly praised and honored "Wall Street" (1987) movie starring Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas.
"Wall Street II" is good for different reasons. Don't compare apples to oranges! Different, both good, but not for the same reasons.
"Wall Street II" is worth watching (again and again) for several reasons:
1. Great acting by superstar actors like Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen (not credited, but part of the movie for about 60 seconds....the best 60 seconds in the movie!).
The "accidental meeting at a party" of 1987 "Wall Street" stars Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen is electric. These two guys are dynamite, and when mixed, produce incredible dramatics not seen in the rest of the movie, or in most other movies, anywhere.
Two superstars, no other way to describe them.
The movie is worth watching just for the quick take sequence which includes the return of "Bud Fox" (Charlie Sheen) meeting up with "Gordon Gekko" (Michael Douglas), both recently out of prison for "insider information victimless crime" offenses, and both doing great!
You'll go a long way to see better, more dynamic superstar actor work than these two guys provide in this movie.
It's explosive, and it's precious. Anyone who cares for incredible acting MUST see the Gekko and Fox Meetup part of the "Wall Street II."
2. Michael Douglas is an incredible actor of high gifts. He deserved his Best Actor Academy Award from "Wall Street I" (1987) and this movie ("Wall Street II") shows that with good writing and the right story, he can do the same good work, again and again and again.
It is a pleasure and a privilege to see the great Michael Douglas act in "Wall Street II." His Dad, Kirk Douglas (aka "Isadore Dempsky") would be proud of son Mike.
His weight in the movie is bad, and director Oliver Stone wisely shoots around the newly enlarged (too big) waistline Mike has in "Wall Street II."
But...what the hell? Nobody's perfect.
Other "nobody's perfect" fat movie stars in the movie include Sylvia Miles (see her before she gained weight in "Midnight Cowboy" [1969], and Susan Sarandon, who plays the mother of the young man star of the movie with a the strange name "Shia LeBoeuf" or something like that.
The commentary (available on the DVD versions of this movie) of Oliver Stone is wonderful.
Stone went to two famous prep schools (Trinity School in Manhattan, and the Hill School) and then went to Yale U. Then to NYC Film School.
He is an educated, cultured man, and his commentary is filled with references to Greek mythical figures like Tiresias and others one learns only when one goes to the best-of-the-best classical eastern USA private schools....which Oliver Stone did!
The DVD commentaries part of "Wall Street II" are a pleasure to listen to, and that is also true of other commentaries Oliver Stone provides for other DVD's I've seen and heard done by him, especially including his "W" movie.
He's smart, interesting, and his company is for sale in these DVD commentaries, and he's worth inviting to dinner!
Make sure the dinner you provide has gourmet tasty food and a beautiful, intriguing, promising female dinner partner for your guest, Oliver Stone.
Great company from a smart, interesting, intelligent, and gracious man.
Get this "feel good" movie and keep it close.
You won't regret it!
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Written by Tex (David) Allen.
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Jean-Sebatien Leveille
Très bon film de suite et très bon acteurs !
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le visuel du film et le son
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