Gordon Gekko is back.
Michael Douglas puts in another great performance, this time against the back drop of the great recession and the carnage on Wall Street. "You are f***ed", he tells his audience at a book launch function. And only three words can save you: "Buy my book"!
When the young Jake Moore (Shia LeBeouf) loses his job, his million dollar bonus cheque and his mentor after his reputed investment bank (a la Lehmann) collapses due to lack of support from the government and regulators, he teams up with Gordon Gekko on a double mission: to avenge the death of his mentor, and to win Gordon's approval for the hand of his daughter. But jail has taught Gordon to value relationships a lot more than his money. Or has it, really?
The dialogues continue to rock, the performances are solid, and the inside view of Wall Street is rivetting, but the story meanders a bit towards the end, and you feel the editor's scissors could have done a better job. The two odd hours seem to stretch forever by the time you come to end, but otherwise, the sequel is almost as good as the original.
1 comment:
The movie was a let down for me.. Weak plot.. And Douglas was not used well enough.. Although, whatever little I saw of him, he was still the best thing about the movie.
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