This weekend I had the chance to go see the sequel to Wall Street. In most of Michael Douglas’ movies he is Michael Douglas playing some great role, but in this film his character Gordon Gekko is all I saw for the entire 2 and a half hours. I shared the trailer for this film months ago with a brief description of the previous movie. I wont go all into that again but you will not be lost if you haven’t watched the original.
I was excited to see this movie because I like this kind of drama. The money, the greed, the hunger, the crime where guns and murders aren’t necessary. Gordon Gekko is a different class of criminal. Gordon returns home from prison and sets out to be a best selling author, but the (Wall)streets is all he knows. He wants to be in his daughters life and sit on the financial thrown again.
The name of the movie is Wall Street so expect a lot of trading floor financial board room talk. You will not get lost in it if your not into stocks and hedge funds. The director Oliver Stone who also directed,” Platoon” & “Natural Born Killers”, made sure everyone could relate to the movie. It was also about family, the recession, 9/11 and how these happenings effected our lives globally. And also how it would have affected us if things happened differently. For example if the U.S. did not bail out the banks.
Of course there was much Luxe to be seen in the movie. Cohiba and Davidoff cigars aplenty. One of our favorites Johnnie Walker Blue had 2 cameo appearances. Not to mention the cars and maybe a few stingray suits. This movie is Luxe go see it.
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