Boy meets girl. Boy meets girl's dad. Girl is estranged from dad. Dad wants to be re-united with girl. Boy helps girl's dad to get back with girl. Dad betrays both boy and girl, and girl blames boy. Dad makes a billion dollars in a year and shares some of it. Boy and girl have a baby and make up. Oh, yes. Boy and dad work on Wall Street in New York. Oh, yes, it takes about 2 hours, most of it spent wondering why the same director and main actor could come up with something so trite and irrelevant to the audience.

What a heavy-handed piece of garbage. Over-actor Shia LaDouche shines again and keeps using up his 15-minutes of fame over-and-over-and-over. When will producers realize that Shia is more of a distractive over-actor than a method actor. Predictable story outcomes and shoved-down-your-throat social messaging play along side of ethnic stereotyping of Chinese and Jews. Do something more constructive with your time rather than watching this movie like cleaning out the lint from your belly-button or perhaps bleaching your socks to a high-white color.

...that's if you are a fan of the first one,or just trust Michael to successfully reprise his Gekko role,with more layers,and do it well. I did and was not let down in the least. Other than that,I say just regular GO. This is because the movie isn't quite as intense as I was expecting. Very good,as well as informative,but not top knotch. And there are 2 scenes that really spoiled things for me by being just elementary in dialogue and style. A scene with Charlie Sheen was one of them. Awkward and cliche at best. The other was a dad/daughter touch feely deal that was totally beneath Stone caliber. Brolin was genius with his character's moods and realizations,Langella squeezed my heartstrings and Wallach was himself. All good work. The miscast was Mulligan. Yes,she was just right in An Education,but not the brilliant new it girl that some seem to think she is. Just my opinion. Do see this....almost a must. :)

the movie was really good as for the actors

Went to this movie eager with anticiaption. Left extremely disappointed. My biggest issue was all the holes in the script. And easy oversights. Example - everytime the movie would cut to CNBC for a market update, the market was always down the same 241 points, regardless of day or circumstance. Fast paced action and wild gyrations - all yielding the same result - scene after scene. Another example? Gekko runs into his old friend Bud Fox at a charity event. Now keep in mind, Gordo spent 8 years in the can. He admits he watched a lot of financial news TV while cooling his heels over that time. Yet when he runs into Bud, he had no knowledge of the ultimate fate of Blue Star Airline. Isn't that kind of improbable?? There were many other mistakes and inconsistancies throughout the film. You would think someone would be assigned to watch for such things.