Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is the type of movie that should be watched more than once especially if you don't know a lot about Wall Street and businesses.The movie opens with the foolish myth of how humans came into existence. One of the main characters "Jake Moore" (Shia LaBeouf) is a wall street guy who is dating "Winnie Gekko" (Carey Mulligan) grown daughter of "Gordon Gekko" (Michael Douglas). Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps presents a few different scenarios and situations, some more important than others. "Gordon Gekko" just gets out of prison and works to make a name for himself in the world of finance again, "Jake Moore" attempts to reconcile "Gordon Gekko" with his daughter "Winnie Gekko", "Winnie Gekko" has the attitude of disliking the business of Wall Street, yet she dates a Wall Street guy, that was briefly mentioned, but never explored further, what was explored was the negative traits of "Gordon Gekko", "Winnie Gekko" clearly is right about how "Gordon Gekko" uses people, but she is unfair towards him in other ways, example blaming him for her brother's wrong path in life, people make their own choices and her brother was grown, you can't blame the parent for the grown child's wrong decisions.A reviewer mentioned that "Shia LaBeouf looks too young to play a rich wall street guy", being young has nothing to do with it, this character went to college and then went straight into the world of wall street earning lots of money and he made investments, it isn't unbelievable at all.The lyrical soundtrack is absolutely awful, but not as bad as to ruin the movie.The performances are natural and there is a brilliant scene "Not About The Money" where "Winnie" reminds "Jake" of what is important in their current situation, Carey Mulligan is fantastic in that scene, she reacts just like a regular girlfriend would react in that situation.The scene where "Louis Zabel" (Frank Langella) kills himself by leaning over into an oncoming train is disturbing, what makes it disturbing is when the screen turns to black and the people in the train station all give a horrified scream all at once, it is supposed to be effective, but it is just too much, if you watch this with headphones on, take them off during that scene or skip over it, the flashback of the piercing screams later on in the movie is just as disturbing.Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps story line goes back and forth between the relationships of the main characters and "Gordon Gekko" trying to get back in the game as well as "Jake" turning into "Gordon Gekko" himself, until "Winnie" gives him a wake up call by temporarily leaving him.The at times contradictory attitude of "Winnie" is never established as if she is supposed to be contradictory or if she is always right, but viewers can make up their own mind and it's obvious, but she is a likable character who can easily seem confusing to the viewers.Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps also shows viewers if "Gordon Gekko" is for real or not, at one point he seems to want to change and then we see that he hasn't changed at all, but then it all comes down to the question of him truly wanting to be in his daughter's life again or not. What is unclear is if they reconciled, or if he just did the right thing by her at the end and left it at that due to him not being there at the very end scene at his grandchild/their child's 1st birthday party.Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is a good film, but they failed to be clear on a couple of scenarios, unless it was intentional.

The best movie about Wall Street from this century.First thing you need to know about this movie: it isn't just about money, is about more, human nature in your contemporary form, with derivatives and greed. Money never sleep is a actual movie because the insane financial market rhythm never stop, after a bubble always come another. This lesson is taught from Gordon Gekko, Michael Douglas, to your need student, Jake Moore, acted by Shi LaBeouf, in a absolute grateful format.Furthermore, Geeko speech greed isn't just a banker privilege, but is at sale for everyone, with no exception, and the worst part, everyone knows it, but anyone wants go out the carousel. Government, corporations, consumers, everyone is so guilt from greed than no one is villain, all our system is based in consumption. Just Gordon understand it and know hows use it.Finally, the movie is about a sociology analyzes of American, and Western, society. Our life style isn't more about work, but about keep the circular money flowing. Gekko explain all it, but the main lesson, or not, is you can't change the system, just play the game.

As far as modern Hollywood films go, WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS is all right. As a sequel to one of the best films of the '80s, it's a complete disappointment, with a watered-down script and even Oliver Stone off the boil. What happened to all the energy you used to find in his films? This one is sluggish and as a director he seems almost disinterested in the material.There are some good things about this film, but they're mostly the bits that reflect the first. Inevitably, Michael Douglas is the best thing in it, but he's given way too little screen time and there's a betrayal of his character in the first movie in that he's softened up this time around; he's not the Gordon Gekko of old. Josh Brolin's corporate bad guy is all right, but the two youthful leads, Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan, are absolutely horrible.LaBeouf is just out of his depth here and his acting stinks. The only film I liked him in was LAWLESS and all the rest have suffered as a result of his attempts at performance. Even worse is the single-expressioned Carey Mulligan's, whose perma-sad face is by far the most irritating thing in the whole movie. I almost had to look away every time she was on screen, she's that awful.The material starts off half-interesting, but the storyline takes ages to develop. The first hour or so retains the attention, but then there's a long, dry patch in the middle before things pick up a little at the end. Unfortunately, the final opinion I came away with is that this is a lazy cash-in, nothing more. A film that concentrated on Gekko alone without any of this kid stuff would have been much more gripping...

I went through that rich bunch called "simple" and "ordinary" on a comically jarring background of Talking Heads up to the point where Labeouf's character received a check of 1 500 000$. Just like that.Does he goes crazy? Well, about as much as if you received twos pays on one check. That is, in a nutshell, what sums up my experience best with this movie. How come these parasitic vultures, who live by making rich people richer at the expenses of the common man, can justify such a salary when the whole economy pays for it? Gecko's daughter claims to be a non-materialistic gal, who can be contented by something like a "modest" 150 000/year salary, but it's easy for her to say, since she is in fact, a multi millionaire. How can one who works blood, sweat and tears for a pity for their satanic majesties' requests can relate to such characters? Furthermore, the movies' psychology is simplistic enough that it not only insult my social status, but also my intelligence. The bad guys can't be more obvious - they're the ones who are pushing for oil; That is supposed to make us look at the "alternate energy sources" brokers as some philanthropic saviours, friends of humanity. I don't know if I should laugh or cry. On a technical level, the flick is excellent, with great (if uninspired) camera shots and excellent actor casting - they're almost all good, Frank Langella being the best one there is. The problem is, like at many high places in the US of A, that the elites are totally detached from reality - the few times the film attempted social salvation were the most cynically hilarious ones. It's my fault, too... Why do I keep renting these?