B
Oliver Stone's still got it. Michael Douglas, awesome. Carey Mulligan, brilliant. Josh Brolin, masterful. This is a movie where aspiring actors should watch and learn. Though the film's topical nature and blatent commenraty on the recent Bank Bailouts seem more vital to the film than they actually are, it does provide an interesting back drop to pick up the story of the infamous Gordon Gekko.

As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon... As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.

If you haven't seent the original, you're fine. If you have, you'll apprecialte a few winks your way. But what keeps this movie from being a truly "great" film, is the ending. Stone tosses us into the concrete jungle of modern wall street, and heads us into one direction the entire movie only to pull a rug out from under us at the end. It all feels forced, and "hollywooded" to the point of being annoying and completely out of character. Oh-well. You can't expect two Wall Streets movies to be A pluses.

The bottom line: Wow, the acting is worth the price of admission, even if the story isn't.

Is it worth your money? YES