Wall Street

1987 Oliver Stone movie

Rating: 12/20

Plot: Wall Street stuff.

Well, there certainly are a whole lot of words in this movie. And then there's some split-screen and the appearance of a robot butler.

Bonus points should have been given for the tracks from David Byrne and Brian Eno's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts album, but I'm in a bad mood and don't feel like it.

Stylistically, this seems a little ahead of its time. But with the subject matter and its themes and that robot butler, it is very much a 1980's movie. It's hard to take Charlie Sheen seriously as an actor 30 years after this, and I'm not sure he's really any good here. Michael Douglas won an Oscar for this, but I've seen him be better in better movies.

No Oscar for the robot butler unfortunately.