Oliver Stone Teases Wall Street 3, Plus Early Buzz On Wall Street 2
By Russ Fischer/May 14, 2010 9:19 am EST
Asked about a sequel, Stone told Reuters,
Why not? We left it open at the end in a way on which we can hang a Wall Street 3. We’ll have Gekko back and maybe Josh Brolin, too.
So what about that ending? Critical word and general recaps of the reception to this morning’s screening are beginning to filter in. Anne Thompson said the screening “earned applause as journos ran out of the Lumiere before the movie had finished to get into the press conference,” before saying,
Movieline said that “‘sell’ seemed to be the general consensus among critics and journalists as they walked out, and calls the acting and writing “solidly mediocre.”
The movie follows so many threads and characters that none of them is fully-fledged, somehow… The movie pops in and out of satirizing and referencing itself and trying to create an authentic drama. And yet it moves along entertainingly, even if the resolution seems Hollywood pat.
The occasionally cranky Jeff Wells reports that the film is,
Finally, THR calls the film “One of the better sequels in a long time,” saying that it,
an intelligent, briskly paced, rat-a-tat financial tale that moves along nicely for the first 75% to 80% of its running time — not brilliantly but sufficiently, offering a more-or-less decent ride. And then it blows itself up during the last 25 minutes or so.Or so it seemed to me. Some have told me they disagree, but I know (or think I know) when a film is gutting itself emotionally.
not only advances a story but also has something new to say. The film overheats now and then but blame this on filmmaking passion. One senses a fully engaged filmmaker at the helm, driving the movie at a lightning pace as if in a hurry to get to the next scene or next aphorism that further illuminates this dark world.
