Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Up yours, Oliver Stone.  No really.  You turn Bud Fox, the hero of Wall Street, into an incorrigible jerk and a profound fraud, and then you turn Gordon Freaking Gekko into a hero?

This may seem a minor point.  After all, Fox only turns up in passing, running across Gekko at a charity dinner and making brief conversation.  But Stone reveals Fox to have been evil all along, waiting for the heat to cool on the events from the first film to flip the beloved airline that served as Wall Street’s MacGuffin so he could sell out his father and live like a self-centered jackass for the rest of his existence.

This, of course, guts Wall Street.  Since Fox’s moral journey had been fraudulent, the audience surrogate got no real lessons.  The means there’s no story at all – the hero didn’t change

Yeah, I know they’re your characters you can do whatever you want with them.  Get bent anyway.  You killed Wall Street when you made Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.  I’m done with both of them.