How has Michael Douglas Gordon Gekko fared over the past two decades?
The old faces are there, but not quite how you remember them.
The surroundings are familiar, but feel a bit more modern.
And the person in charge is just a little bit softer than you remember.
It doesnt take long, either, for director Oliver Stone to assemble his pieces.
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ForWall Street: Money Never Sleepsis an odd beast.
It spends most of its time away from the trading floors that helped define the original movie.
And its keen to hammer home its very blunt message with alarming regularity.
Or the hammering home of the importance of family over money.
Its an odd cocktail, and the film takes paths that Stone wisely avoided over 20 years ago.
What the film does have in its corner, however, is a pair of strong performances.
Firstly, its immense fun to see Michael Douglas strolling around the screen as Gekko once more.
Its infectious too, and youll be regularly crying out for more of him as the film goes on.
The same too for Carey Mulligan as Winnie.
On paper, her role doesnt look that interesting, and her narrative path quite predictable.
Sadly, the strength of Mulligan is countered by the solid-at-best Shia LaBeouf.
And then theres Oliver Stone.
He didnt pen the script this time around, and perhaps that accounts for its lack of real bite.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps arrives in the UK on 6th October.
Rating:
3 out of 5
