2/5For me to give this any higher then a two is not doing the film justice. This film was just too boring, too complicated and too over-the-top(but not in a cool Inception kind of way). The only reason I can even give this film a 2 is the names they got. Michael Douglas, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Frank Langella, all great actors, all having some sort of award/nomination by the Academy. Oh, Shia Lebouef is in this as well, but he's not important, he's only the lead actor. Ok, to be fair, he does a half decent job with this, and I wasn't bored by him, some of the time. My favourite actor in this film is Frank Langella, whom I've been a fan of since the amazing Frost/Nixon(and if you're a Deep Space Nine fan, he's in the 3 part episode arc at the beginning of Season 2 as Minister Jaro). His part in this film is brief, but by far my favourite, more then Gekko, who is just going through the motions of the last time. I dunno why people keep wanting to see villians in a second movie, it doesn't work, not for Hannibiel Lector(Red Dragon; Hannibiel) and it didn't work for Gordon Gekko. Also, I was VERY irritated by Carey Mulligans character. Why should I "char" about this character who just cries, and cries and CRIES!! It's so fuckin annoying to watch(but it shows that she can show emotion I suppose) and it turns a semi- interesting character into a typical female character. It's been done to death. also, may i note at how many times I thought this movie would end, but ended up going on for another half hour. True, it wasn't that bad, but what preceeded it was. I had high hopes for this film, but I don't think this was as good as it could've been. Overall, if you like stocks, finance and the first Wall Street, then you may enjoy this, otherwise, you'll be bored to tears and just wanting to run out of that theater(P.S. please note the Charlie Sheen cameo halfway through the film. Was that really nessecary? )
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