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Studio Edward R. Pressman Film
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Directed by Oliver Stone
Screenplay by Allan Loeb ; Stephen Schiff
Release date 24 September 2010
Running time 127 minutes
Starring Michael Douglas
Shia LaBeouf
Josh Brolin
Carey Mulligan
Quick Synopsis
Gordon Gekko (M. Douglas) is back after almost eight years in prison which seven years later he finds out that his daughter "Winnie" (Mulligan) is dating Jake Moore (LaBeouf) and about to get married. Due to Winnie hasn't spoken to Gekko for a long time since Rudy death, Gekko is reluctant that Winnie will be willing to accept Gekko back. Jake working as broker is benefiting from Gekko intelligence and is struggling to look for investor to fund the fusion research project and to avenge the death of his role model Keller Zabel from suicide. Hence, both of them "Jake and Gecko" comes into agreement that Gecko will help Jake to avenge the death of Keller Zabel and in returns Jake must help Gekko to gain trust from his daughter again.
Review
Gordon Gecko is back but fail to impress. Audiences might feel disappointed with Gecko is not the main plot for the whole story, magic finance trick that he pulled out to fool the stock market systems that is found on Wall Street 1 is barely executed on the sequel. However, in term of character execution, both Shia and Douglas really pull it through with their performance to the limit.
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On the other side, the effect of financial crisis hardly depicted in this movie and unlike the first movie, the atmosphere of stock trading is not fully developed leaving the movie merely touching the outstanding line. However, the message of the writer is getting through quite easily to the audience that "Greed is not good, that Greed is going to slowly consume you, that Greed is going to harm your love one without you even know it". More, I find that the drama is not strong enough leaving it just like another romantic conflicts. Well, overall the movie is okay for a mere entertainment and stock market lover.
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