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I knew the review would be coming and I've seen at least one commercial for it, but here's Ebert on Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps:
Oliver Stone's "Wall Street" (1987) was a wake-up call about the financial train wreck the Street was headed for. Had we only listened. Or perhaps we listened too well, and Gordon ("Greed Is Good") Gekko became the role model for a generation of amoral financial pirates who put hundreds of millions into their pockets while bankrupting their firms and bringing the economy to its knees. As "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" begins, Gekko has been able to cool his heels for many of the intervening years in a federal prison, which is the film's biggest fantasy; the thieves who plundered the financial system are still mostly in power, and congressional zealots resist efforts to regulate the system.
Just a couple of nights ago, I posed the question via Twitter:
Does Oliver Stone feel any guilt regarding that infamous phrase?
From the review, I'm going to guess that he doesn't:
I wish it had been angrier. I wish it had been outraged. Maybe Stone's instincts are correct, and American audiences aren't ready for that. They haven't had enough of Greed.
Yeah, who needs all that...anger & stuff?
