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Overall a very well done movie as a sequel to wall street
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I really liked the first movie but this one I found boring & hard to follow & hear. Acting was terrible. Including Douglas.
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Well put together sequel to Wall Street. I can't see anyone else playing Gordon Gekko other than Michael Douglas in which he does a fantastic job. Wasn't sure if Shia LaBeouf would fit the apprentice mold, but the story line suits his character fine. I bought the movie to see hollywood's take on the stock market and the economic times of the past couple of years. Oliver Stone at times delivers an artsy composition of wallstreet/financial characters played over by Talking Heads songs every 30 minutes or so. It would have been interesting to a darker take on this sequel, sort of like what Michael Bay did to Transformers. You know, sort of like what one of the movie promo posters suggests for Money Never Sleeps. I did find the tie-in of Bretton's TARP bailout and also the general practices of his investment bank devious and plot twisting. As Gekko says in the movie, Bretton makes him look like a small time crook. I couldn't tell if the movie pokes fun at the fusion energy project as a total joke or not. Maybe the writers were just trying to find 2010's version of Bud Fox's Blue Star Airlines. Would Chinese investors today actually put money in that project? Or would they just steal the technology and make it cheaper themselves? After all, it took the Frozen Truth's expose for the project to finally gain traction : PRead full review
Interesting sequel to the first movie installment "Wall Street. In this film, Jacob Moore (Shia Le Beouf) is engaged to Winnie Gekko, daughter of past Wall Street tycoon, Gordon Gekko, who wound up going to prison for eight years on assorted charges including insider trading, fraud, and racketeering. Besides insider trading, his biggest crime was pissing off too many of the wrong people. He is now being released from prison. Winnie is estranged from him, blaming him for practically everything that has gone wrong in her life. Jacob is a Securities trader and Louis Zabel is his best friend and mentor is his boss. In the midst of the Wall Street melt-down Zabel commits suicide shortly after his company and reputation are destroyed by a rival Bretton James (Josh Brolin), top executive with Churchill Schwartz. Jacob swears revenge for his friend. Curious about Gekko, Jacob goes to a book seminar where he is talking his new book, "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" where he predicts all of the financial woes, and Wall Streey collapse of 2009. Facinated, like a moth to a fire, Jacob introduces himself, tells Gekko about his daughter, and a relationship begins, unknown to Winnie, his fiancee. Jacob has been supporting a West Coast scientist's work on producing fuel from sea water using a type of nuclear fusion, but with the loss of his employer, the funding has stopped. Jacob decides to clandestinely screw Bretton James's company, and does so for about $120M. Having gotten his attention, James offers him a job which he accepts, and when he forges a good corporate relationship with a Chinese group for investment into his pet project on the West Coast, James steps in and ruins it, he quits. When Winnie was just a child, Gekko set up a Swiss account in her name, which she couldn't access on her own. It was intended for a time when he would be released, so that he would have start-up capital. Now the money was frozen, and she was estranged from him. Due to certain liabilities involved in this sort of sheltered account, Gekko convinced Jacob to get Winnie to release the funds to him in order to insulate her from possible income tax evasion charges. He (Gekko) was supposed to send the money, $100M to the research scientist in California, but he didn't do it. Instead, he used the money for a new start. You may think he is a real bastard, but this was the initial plan for this money, and Winnie reneged also. Because of all this, Winnie, although pregnant, left Jacob. He was devastated and went to London to see Gekko and find out why he had refused to send the money as he had promised. Jacob also tried to appeal to his sense of decency with a copy of the ultrasound image of the child. He refused, but after several months, and the success of a very savvy and experienced trader, he is able to settle many old debts, like ruining Bretton James. He knew that Bretton was one of the people responsible for his doing eight years in prison instead of the customary one to two years. In the process he again became a big-time Wall Street tycoon, and in general, "King Of the Hill" once more. He also sent the original $100M to the scientist from an anonymous account in the Caribbean. Together, they all decided to each five the other a second chance. This was a pretty good movie, but not as good as the original.Read full review
The story is an extension of the orignal film "Wall Street" after the character played by Michael Douglas (Gordon Gekko) gets out of prison. He is immersed in a world similar to his own, ut not the same. But he quickly adapts and manipulates things so he can have his way. I the end, he chooses to mend his ways to become a true father. And in end he is nearer redemption. But using nuclear fusion as one of the core. I think it is a long way off as of this writing (we cannot get electric cars off the ground, economy-wise). But the scenes and plots are based on real life like the housing bust. And some people spending a lot of money on luxury when others are in their times of need. In reality I guess some rich people do not care about others beneath them. Some of the plots and presentations I find exaggerated. I like trading and investing myself and this is why the movie appeals to me. I like it more for the drama and I am not disappointed.Read full review
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