Rotten
The sensibility of this movie is so adolescent that it's hard to take it as seriously as the filmmakers intend us to.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Overview
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, whom takes the youth under his wing.
Director and cast
- Oliver Stone Director
- Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko
- Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox
- Martin Sheen as Carl Fox
- Daryl Hannah as Darien Taylor
- John C. McGinley as Marvin
- Hal Holbrook as Lou Mannheim
- Sean Young as Kate Gekko
- Terence Stamp as Sir Larry Wildman
- James Spader as Roger Barnes
- Chuck Pfeiffer as Chuckie (as Chuck Pfeifer)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
79%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Watching Oliver Stone's Wall Street is about as wordy and dreary as reading the financial papers accounts of the rise and fall of an Ivan Boesky-type arbitrageur.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
Dramatically inept, the film also muddles its naive moralising.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
Wall Street isn't a movie to make one think. It simply confirms what we all know we should think, while giving us a tantalizing, Sidney Sheldon-like peek into the boardrooms and bedrooms of the rich and powerful.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
With its posturing politics and cardboard characterizations, Wall Street is not up to [Oliver Stone's] past standards.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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