Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Reviewed

Time may be on Oliver Stone’s mind but he, like everyone else, still hasn’t figured out a more useful way for us to spend it than watching movies about how we really ought to do something.

In Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Gordon Gekko calls time “the most valuable commodity I know.” It’s the time that’s passed since last we saw Gekko which most seems to be on the mind of director Oliver Stone. Back in 1987 Gekko told us greed was good and when he said it, we weren’t supposed to adopt it as an ethos, but rather heed it as a warning of what we’d become if we didn’t turn things around. No one listened. The wheels of greed kept spinning and the bubble burst. Then it burst again. The next time it bursts we might not survive and Stone’s new movie is keenly aware that we’re running out of time to stop it, time ticking away, time in which we’re not doing anything, time in which he believes we’re not listening, time in which we’re not acting.