DVD: Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, For retail & rental (20th Century Fox)
Twenty-two years in the making, Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel starts as a meaty, grown-up drama in which wealth and testosterone waft intoxicatingly from the screen.
But it's a case of boom and bust. The second half feels cobbled together, as if Stone can't decide what the film should be about. What's worse is that Michael Douglas's Gordon Gekko is reduced to the status of pitiable outsider – and who wants to see that?
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