I’m sorry to say this but the Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps movie was quite a drag. The scenes were kinda stretched, there was too many unnecessary scenes in the movie that should have been cut short and I can’t understand the unnecessary movie graphics. Come to think of it I think the editing was somehow looked like it was a TV series without the commercials but the gaps for commercials. Imagine a regular TV series like Law and Order having commercial gaps, that’s how it looked like.
Money never sleeps in Wall Street but I fell asleep while watching the movie! Seriously! I’ve never fallen asleep watching a movie in a cinema ever, this was the first.
Don’t get me wrong the movie theme was great and very timely. People will get an outlook of how the stock market, the stock brokers, financial advisors, and investment bankers play an important role in making or breaking a country’s economy and how the world will perceive it. It talked about government bail outs , cheap auto insurance, and the decline of the real estate in America. It was very interesting to see the players in the stock exchange and the world economy itself.
The drama was amazing but the editing was the worst! Instead of having a nice build up it went flat boring the audience.
I’m glad it was an advance screening and I hope they re-edit the movie before its show in all Philippine cinemas on September 29, 2010 by 20th Century Fox as distributed by Warner Bros.
Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps Movie Info
Wall Street 2 is set right before the meltdown of the world’s financial markets. While Michael Douglas reprises his Oscar winning role as Gordon Gekko, Josh Brolin plays Bretton James, a powerful billionaire and manipulative investment banker. Brolin, an experienced trader himself tells more of “Wall Street 2” and its implications in today’s financial setting.
Resolute to win back the love of his daughter and determined to reestablish his position as Wall Street’s most powerful broker – Gekko joins forces with Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf) who is engaged to Winnie. Jake personifies the brilliant technologically savvy individuals who by 2008 were making millions before they turned thirty. Gekko uses Jake to gain access to Winnie – and Jake seeks Gekko’s advice in gaining the upper hand over Bretton James, a ruthless investment banker whom Jake holds responsible for his mentor and firm’s destruction.
Gekko’s imprisonment taught him many lessons, says Douglas. “He’s had a lot of time to think. He can see much more clearly. He’s bearish on what’s been transpiring in the world of finance. Gekko is able to look at the problems objectively and he can see how screwed we are.”
When Gekko is released from prison, he is determined to reestablish his position as a Wall Street’s most powerful broker. But he’s looking for more than re-accumulating vast sums of money; “Gekko wants to be acknowledged,” Douglas explains. “It’s one of the reasons he’s written a book.”
Cast:
Michael Douglas, Josh Brolin, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella, Carey Mulligan and a cameo of Charlie Sheen.
Charlie Sheen’s cameo was one of the saving points of the movie that liven it a bit for me plus the plot where bloggers play an important role in this movie too!
If you don’t know much about the world economy or stock exchange I suggest you do a little research first because I’m definite it will make you fall asleep unless they cut all the unnecessary scenes in the movie before it gets out in the theaters for public viewing and get straight to the point, short and sweet!
Stay gorgeous everyone!
