Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

There’s a lot of talking about money, which is not so cinematic. So Oliver Stone plays with visuals. Stock tickers stream through the air, numbers fly in and out of frame, phone calls bloom into split-screens, all to make a movie in which people talk about money more interesting. For the most part he succeeds. The cast, especially Frank Langella, is solid. (Who knew Eli Wallach was still alive?) And the moral of the story, considering it’s from Oliver Stone, is neither radical nor cynical: money matters, but personal relationships matter more.