Its nearly 2 decades since "Wall Street" chronicled the excesses of the go-go 80s, and the more things change..... well, you know the rest.
Former Wall Street trader Gordon Gecko is sprung from prison, but no one shows up for him. Meanwhile, his estranged daughter is about to marry Jakob Moore (Shia Lebouf, redeeming himself from the execrable Transformers movies), who is Gecko for the 21st century, except that he has a conscience...kind of.
Gecko forms an alliance with her fiance Jacob, and Jacob begins to see him as a father figure. But Jacob learns the hard way that Gecko -- still a master manipulator and player -- is after something very different from redemption.
there's little that's really remarkable about this sequel, except of course that the "art-imitates-life-imitates art" circle is repeated. In this instance, the spectacular fall of lehman Brothers is mirrored in the movie firm Keller Zabel, complete with a Depression-era suicide by the ruined CEO (neatly played by Frank langella).
Indeed, its the acting that stands out in Wall Street 2, and Stone has toned down much of the misplaced profligacy that marred his earlier features.
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