LITTLE ROCK — There’s too much worth chewing over in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street sequel, Money Never Sleeps, to dismiss it out of hand, according to the review in Friday’s MovieStyle section
Sure, it’s old-fashioned — ’80s old-fashioned, from the Tom Cruise-cocky way Shia LaBeouf plays his cocky, earnest young investment analyst to the dated ironic wailing of David Byrne on the soundtrack. It’s almost kitschy — the way Stone injects himself into a couple of scenes, an eccentric Eli Wallach cameo, the inclusion of a Charlie Sheen moment that flat-out winks at the audience.
But before Money Never Sleeps goes off the rails, we’re treated to a vintage Stone history lesson — the stock market meltdown and Fed intervention as seen through the eyes of the conspiracy buff who served up J.F.K. Lovely performances surround the leads — LaBeouf and Michael Douglas, back as Gordon Gekko. Terrific moments of regret play out. And then the script lets everybody down.
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