Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, or Wall Street 2 is a confused movie.
It doesn’t quite know which story to follow. It’s a series of stories, while telling a main story, it tells another.

I’m quite terrible at writing reviews, but this one I will try to keep to the whole no-spoiler thing.

I like and hate this movie. I like it because it’s a really cool story. I hate it because I might have to watch it a second time – it kind of rams information down your neck, with multiple stories, and plots and other shit, so quickly, that you can’t quite understand it. At least I had that kind of experience. It might not come across like that for some. But it did for me.

It’s got some good actors. Shia LaBeouf – playing Jake Moore, who has got it on with Michael Douglas’s (playing Gordon Gekko) daughter Winnie Gekko (played by Carey Mulligan, who is a pretty decent actress IMO). And Frank Langella (Louis Zabel – his character), who is kind of unknown, but I really like his movies he’s in.

It basically follows Jake Moore in his attempts to take down a finance executive. He enlists the help of Gordon, who happens to be a disgraces finance legend at the start of the movie, but somehow becomes a legend again. And he also would like him and his daughter to be loving again, and what-not. In the end it’s pretty much a “happily ever after” ending, how? I don’t know. Why? I also don’t know. But it needs a bit of a back story, and since I didn’t watch the original Wall Street, is why I’m probably all confused.

Anyway, I can’t exactly review this one, I’ve only watched it once, but all in all, decent time sink. Maybe not enough time for character and story development, or maybe too rushed.
Overall – 5/10 I wouldn’t exactly keep this movie on my favourites list. But I’m no financial advisor. Not my scene though.
I’d probably recommend watching the first one before this. Though the first one is kind of aged, but don’t let that put you off it.