Wall Street Money Never Sleeps Film Review. CANNES Oliver Stones 1. Gundam Sd G Generation Psp English. Wall Street took viewers into an exotic world. Those were the days when financial news occupied the gray back pages of newspapers. Suddenly, here was a movie about banking that looked like a thriller traders talked a mile a minute, brokers did deals between gulps of coffee, millions of dollars moved in the twinkling of an eye, people talked on cell phones albeit the size of a brick, and men could change destiny through insider trading. You also learned that, in the by now iconic phrase uttered by its anti hero, Gordon Gekko, greed is good. Stone returns to this world in Wall Street Money Never Sleeps, but theres nothing exotic about it anymore. Its featured on the nightly news in every unemployment statistic and freshly announced corporate downsizing. The bank bailout debate still rages, and arrogant banking kingpins looks less like anti heroes than out and out villains. So Stone and his savvy writers, Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff, have crafted a tale that takes advantage of viewers newfound knowledge and cynicism. At its heart is a pair of good young people wanting to put money into green energy while all around them there revolves, like an evil planetary system, gravitational forces that know only unregulated in every sense of the word chicanery. Note RELEASE DATE shows all movies that opened in a given time period and their. Wall Street Money Never Sleeps 2010' title='Wall Street Money Never Sleeps 2010' />Thus Money Never Sleeps is that rare sequel that took its time 2. The film overheats now and then but blame this on filmmaking passion. One senses a fully engaged filmmaker at the helm, driving the movie at a lightning pace as if in a hurry to get to the next scene or next aphorism that further illuminates this dark world. How audiences will react to revelations that may no longer be revelations is hard to say. Wall Street Money Never Sleeps 2010' title='Wall Street Money Never Sleeps 2010' />But Stone has cast his movie well with Shia La. Beouf, Josh Brolin and Carey Mulligan to attract younger viewers while Michael Douglas return as Gekko cant help being a major lure. Wisely, Gekko becomes a subplot. While the opening sequence details his release from prison in 2. Jake Moore La. Beouf, who just happens to be in love with Winnie Gekko Mulligan, Gordons estranged daughter. The focus thus shifts to the pre 2. Jake gets caught off guard by a meltdown in his own investment banking firm. Its head and his mentor Frank Langella takes a huge fall when a governmental bail out never materializes and an old nemesis, Bretton James Brolin, a partner in a rival bank, pounces on the firm like a vulture smelling carrion. In a sentence The story of the financial crisis as only Michael Lewis, the famous novelist and author of Wall Street classic Liars Poker, could tell it. Douglas is back in his Oscarwinning role as Gordon Gekko, whos iconic Greed is good mantra and daring corporate raids made him a rock star of. Cast, credits, and information, plus links. Money Never Sleeps is that rare sequel that took its time 23 years so it not only advances a story but also has something new to say. Fleeing from the police, wounded, Federico stumbles upon a young girl, Simona, and charms her into hiding out in the garden villa. Their relationship at first is. Wall Street is an eightblocklong street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower. Wall Street Money Never Sleeps 2010' title='Wall Street Money Never Sleeps 2010' />Jake finds a small way to get revenge for his old boss, which catches James attention. Rather than settle the score, James offers Jake a job. Which only postpones Jakes determination to avenge his mentor. Meanwhile Jake takes in a lecture by Gekko, who is promoting his new book, Is Greed Good Jake approaches the author and offers to help facilitate a rapprochement between father and daughter. Gekko agrees but, as is his nature, plays things cagey. So a story about the new Wall Street gets entwined with one about Gekko struggling to rehabilitate his image and regain respect in financial circles. Prison hasnt softened Gekko up but it has perhaps sharpened his moral perceptions. Looking at the new Wall Street, he remarks, I was small time compared to these crooks. His book anticipates the meltdown but shades of the old Gekko he wishes he had 1. Can you win two Oscars playing the same roleAn actor rarely gets the opportunity to revive a breakthrough role in a way that allows him to rethink the character in terms of changes time has wrought and to reflect on where fatal flaws once lay. Douglas does this brilliantly. He does so by carrying on with a character very reminiscent of the original, with the same mannerisms and slicked back hair, but instead of a defiant, cocky pirate, he is now a man with patience, one willing to wait for the opportunity to strike and to put family first if it can be arranged on his terms. La. Beouf nicely balances his characters idealism with cold eyed pragmatism. He gets the earnestness but also the steely determination. Mulligan and Brolin deliver extremely strong supporting roles with attention grabbing characters that could star in other movies. Veterans Eli Wallach, Susan Sarandon and, of course, Langella make vivid impressions with their screen time. Stone gets too fancy here and there. He and his Alexander cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto swoop the camera around Manhattan as if it were attached to a bird. A heavy reliance on multiple screens, graphics and digital tricks makes it feel like youre watching CNN with all its computer screen busy ness. This often distracts from what the characters are saying. With most movies, this may not be a bad idea, but the dialogue here is so forceful you want to savor every zinger. Venue Festival de Cannes Out of Competition. Century Fox. Production companies An Edward Pressman production. Cast Michael Douglas, Shia La. Beouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Eli Wallach, Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella. Director Oliver Stone. Screenwriters Allan Loeb, Stephen Schiff. Based on characters created by Stanley Weiser, Oliver Stone. Producer Edward Pressman, Eric Kopeloff. Executive producers Alessandro Camon, Alex Young, Celia Costas. Director of photography Rodrigo Prieto. Production designer Kristi Zea. Music Craig Armstrong. Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick. Editors David Brenner, Julie Monroe. PG 1. 3, 1. 31 minutes.