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.

Michael Douglas has another go as Wall Street crook Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street - Money Never Sleeps" from 2010, directed by Oliver Stone. It's 2001, and Gordon has just been released from prison and has written a book. His daughter, Winnie (Carey Mulligan), who wants nothing to do with him, now runs a liberal website and is engaged to Jake Moore (Shia LeBoeuf), an ambitious broker. When Jake's boss and mentor takes his life thanks to rumors of his company failing started by Bretton James (Josh Brolin), Jake wants revenge. Gordon Gekko can possibly help him -- after all, James is an enemy of his as well. In return, Gekko wants a relationship with his daughter.Another big stock market crash, this one from 2008, serves as the background for this film, which crashes right along with the market. The acting is okay, but the story is derivative and predictable. At 133 minutes, it seems overly long, and Oliver Stone has done better work. Disappointing, as I'm sure many people were looking forward to this film after "Wall Street."

(42%) Gets by with the brilliance of Michael Douglas's acting ability as well the decent supporting cast, but the story simply boils down to a seen-it- all-before family drama about a father trying to regain his child's affection. I hated the clear product placement during what should have been one of the films more interesting parts when Gekko, after many years apart, is about to have dinner with his daughter ("want a Heineken?" as the camera cuts away from the actors to show a cold one just like a TV ad) and the pointless motorcycle scene that is only there so they could put it in the trailer. Without the good cast and decent direction this would have been a right old stinker, as it is it's just plain average at best.

This movie seemed a little rushed to me, in a sense that as soon as the global financial crisis happened, Oliver Stone immediately sat down with his pen and began to write a movie based on the events, bringing characters from the original movie forward in time so that he may comment on the events of 2008. This is the first sequel Oliver Stone has written, and while it was not a bad movie, it did seem somewhat contrived to deal with the events of 2008.The original movie was meant to be a criticism of Wall Street, however it turned out that it was not taken as a criticism but as supporting the culture of Wall Street, particularly with sayings like 'for lack of a better word, greed is good.' However, in this film, the saying goes, 'where I originally said greed is good, now it seems to have become legal'.Gordon Gecko returns in this film, having been released from gaol penniless and with a collection of antique memorabilia from his high flying days back in the 80's. His daughter has grown up and she is now in a relationship with another young Wall Street up and comer. He works for a very old and venerable investment bank that suddenly finds itself under attack during a period of market volatility, and its share price is driven down so low that it makes it a bargain which is quickly snapped up. Jack Moore, the new hero of the story, smells a rat, especially since the owner commits suicide. However he needs the help of Gordon Gecko to get to the bottom of what is going on.Gecko appears to have changed through his time in prison, however in many cases it seems to be a façade which he uses to get himself back onto the rich list. He suggests that if he had $100 million then he could easily cash in on the crisis. However, there is also something human about him, which is what Moore uses to bring him over. There is also the idea that green energy is going to be the next bubble (it's not, rather two years on, I have noticed that it is the mining boom, at least here in Australia, that is driving the next bubble. With a number of small cap mining stocks making up to 1000% gains since July 2010 it goes to show that the green energy bubble has yet to materialise).The movie tries to explore the reasons behind the crash of 2008, trying to explore ideas such as Collateral Debt Obligations and the like, however I think a number of these areas are quite complicated, and in the end it was a rigged casino culture on Wall Street that sought to over inflate assets and false rumours to destroy one's rivals. Once again, it all comes back to bite the bad guy in the movie, though in real life that did not necessarily happen. It always comes down to a fall guy, and in the real crisis, that fall guy was Bernard Mardoff. Everybody else seemed to get away with their multi-million dollar bonuses.