Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Director Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas return alongside new comers Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan in this sequel to Wall Street (1987). Everyone's favourite asset stripper and criminal businessman makes a come back in front of the back drop of the recent financial crisis.
The problem with this film is that it is fairly bland, yes it covers the important issues fairly well but not in a way really engages the viewer. It should be fairly easy to get us spitting at the mouth at the idiots that cause the credit crunch but I think the film gets a little lost in the details. It is a real shame because Gordon Gekko was the perfect choice of a character to bring back for a story like this, sadly the execution ends up being a bit average. Some of the use of split screen and inserting images of characters on the other end of phone calls seems a little out of place too.
3/5 not the worst sequel ever but not the best either.
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