Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Directed by Oliver Stone
As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.
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It's been two years since the stock market crashed creating massive layoffs, house repossessions, inflation and other turmoil, but other than a number of well-executed documentaries and Oliver Stone's "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," the subject matter hasn't been covered in a way that mainstream audiences can fully understand what happened.
"Margin Call" is what we might have hoped Oliver Stone might have achieved with his wishy-washy "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," which was inconsistent with its characters and themes and copped out with a huggy-huggy ending.
Margin Call is the movie Oliver Stone tried to make with Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, only a lot less flashy and melodramatic — and sharper, smarter and with a much stronger cast.
But though we’re still down and out, at least we’re filthy rich in films: from features such as John Wells’ The Company Men, Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air to documentaries such as Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story and Alex Gibney’s Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
…out of Born on the Fourth of July The Doors U Turn Any Given Sunday (May 17/01) As of late, Oliver Stone's wildly over-the-top style of (over) directing his projects has gotten to be a little tiresome.
While Oliver Stone has yet to direct a memorable feature in this 21st century — World Trade Center, W. and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps are raging mediocrities, while Alexander and Savages are downright awful — there existed a decade-long stretch when he was one of this nation's most interesting and uncompromising filmmakers, crafting such controversial conversation starters as JFK and Natural Born Killers (and, of course, finding more universal acceptance with his Oscar-winning Platoon).
That personal bond may be why - after a few misfires, including the trashy "Savages" and superfluous "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" - the director seems confident and relaxed here.
This soft spot crippled Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and did a number on the otherwise awesome Savages.
He has made films that bent over backwards to be topical, like the earnest and sentimental 9/11 requiem “World Trade Center,” or the goofy provocative political cartoon “W.,” or the cautionary-but-behind-the-curve financial thriller “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.”
Unfortunately, in movie terms the 1980s were a long time ago, and Stone’s more recent films have ranged from total misfires (Alexander, 2004) to passable but not great (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, 2010).
First came 2008’s W., a spiritual sequel to Nixon; then came 2010’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, a literal sequel to Wall Street; most recently was 2012’s Savages, a rather desperate attempt to recapture the extremity of Natural Born Killers.
That said, with World Trade Centre , Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Savages among his recent output, Snowden is his best film in some time, as well as his most topical.
Fortunately, not only does Shame feature a powerful and gut-wrenching performance from Fassbender, but nearly everyone else involved also steps up to the plate – including McQueen and co-star Carey Mulligan (Drive and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps).