Oliver Stone directs Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas and Daryl Hannah in this drama set around the world of stock prices, hostile takeovers, insider trading and Faustian pacts.

Expose as advert. I wanna say this is Stone’s slickest, most mainstream film. It sells a lifestyle it hates, it moves like a thriller with no peril. It works as Sheen is every inch the movie star incarnate yet he lacks the vulnerability, like-ability and humanity of a Cruise / Hanks / Emilio. If Charlie Sheen started his career today… you’d think he was AI. Douglas on the other hand was born to play this tailored devil. A bastard man, corporate evil on two legs, who you can’t help but love. How dare these corrupted, venal souls betray Gordon Gekko!?

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Perfect Double Bill: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

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