Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

Having watched the original a couple weeks ago, and needing to get this one over with, I scheduled some time for this long sequel. I was concerned from the start since the main character completely changed from the original, Charlie Sheen to Shia LaBeouf.

The film starts with Michael Douglas finishing his jail sentence and leaving the jail. We, that remember the first film, assume he is in jail from Sheen's character's closing scenes of the first film. The film then tries to remake the 2008 bank failures with fake companies, and Josh Brolin playing the main bad guy that caused all this. The film is a constant battle between who's character is more important LaBeouf or Douglas. There is never a focus on the storyline and we get a sense that this film was just made because of the latest issues on wall street. There is a cameo by Sheen... yay. The thing I hated the most was the interaction between Carey Mulligan and LaBeouf and Douglas. I'm not a fan of hers and all the scenes seemed fake.

Pass on this horrible remake, the original wasn't even that good, and they are just pandering to the 2008 wall street crash to make a buck.

Vote: 3/10

IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1027718/

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