Wall Street Money Never Sleeps

The money may never sleep but I nearly did. Zzzzzzzzzz

What went wrong here? Michael Douglas is slimey enough. Snake-like, even. He talks about cancer 3 times with regard to the financial industry which now seems uncomfortably forshadowing since the man is battling cancer himself.

The performances were not the problem. Douglas - excellent. Shia LaBeouf - excellent (I'm a fan anyway tho) Josh Brolin - good enough. Carey Mulligan - eh. Susan Sarandon even shows up in a small bit and does a decent job.

The problem is the thing gets confusing - muttled - hard to follow. Then they slip in a small zinger of reality (how corrupt Wall Street really is) and then hurry and bury that again. The whole thing gets smothered in a romance/try to make up with daddy/bad guy becomes nice guy after all story. It seems like the whole financial thing wasn't that bad after all and the real people responsible get caught and punished so everything is okay now.

Huh?

For an Oliver Stone movie this is horribly disappointing. Wall Street is a huge subject, one that affects all of us and is historically the most corrupt and outlandish thing to ever happen in the country. To push all of that aside with one sweep is really dropping the ball. Stone has no stones in this one, clearly.

I'm giving it a '2'. Less for the story but more for the performances and for what was attempted.

We saw hard working Super Manager Shane today and had some of the best Hot Fresh Pueblo Tinseltown popcorn with sprinkle cheese! Everyone was friendly and doing a great job as usual. It was a good crowd for the first showing of this movie, too. Many others looking forward to it as I was, and most likely feeling a bit let down afterward.