Really? This was necessary? Why? What’s the point? OK, I suppose revisiting Wall Street all these years later is timely, given the banking crisis and resultant global meltdown.
Really? This was necessary? Why? What’s the point? OK, I suppose revisiting Wall Street all these years later is timely, given the banking crisis and resultant global meltdown. I’ll allow you that, albeit grudgingly. But this is celebratory in tone, rather than outraged. You will want to shake it and shout, ‘Goddamn it, get angry!’ It sheds no new light on anything. It says zilch. There is no point.
It simply recycles the same morality fable, and the same characters, right down to the wide-eyed rookie who worships Gordon Gekko, is wooed by the promise of wealth and power, and is then shafted for his trouble. In 1987, it was Charlie Sheen.
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