Review – Wall Street

Wow, this thing is preachy even by Oliver Stone standards. Charlie Sheen stars as an ambitious young broker who attaches himself to the apotheosis of the Reagan 80s: mega-dealer Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas). Of course things take an immediate turn for the Faustian, and before he knows it our hero is ass-deep in insider training, industrial espionage and no end of other soul-destroying nonsense. The slick, high-dollar, morally-bankrupt environment is a real throwback to the decade of its origin. Unfortunately the show gets bogged down by dialogue that consists mostly of people making speeches to one another rather than actually talking. But if you can stand the sermons, this’ll give you at least some idea of what Hollywood thought America was like in the 1980s. Mildly amusing