I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Blistering performances.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I think this movie achieves almost perfect what it wants. A nice story about the Wall Street, money and crave. The camera gives nice images from New York, the actors are good (even though I sometimes find Charlie Sheen to act a little over the top), and the story has nice depth and a message. It perfectly shows what crave and money can do with you. It is able to destroy relationships, even your life. BUT: The story is just boring. It is so well made, but because it is so not relatable it is boring. Added to that, I wasn't really worried about the characters, I didn't feel for them, because if you think of it, you realize they are not in real danger. I mean... if Buddie would have failed on half of his way, what would have happened to him? He would have continued his "normal" lifestyle. That is just not that exciting. That is why the movie is just 'ok' for me

First of all, I enjoyed MIchael Douglas's performance. He is a natural heel and his Gordon Gekko is superb. He has been created to be the most formidable of bad guys with no regard for anyone but himself. It sound like a certain race for the Republican nominee for President that is going on right now (2016). Beyond this, I found the rest of the cast stiff and uninteresting. The Sheens, for instance, are tired clichés in this. Not only that, they deliver their lines as if they had the script in hand at the first reading. I tired of the pontificating of most of the characters. Bring in Hal Holbrook to say pithy things about how the world is going to hell in a hand basket, wasting his talent. Then there is the usual endless noise of the broker's offices. Finally, the whole thing is so unbelievable. And what's with Darryl Hannah? She is singled out for her great performance. I found her to be absolutely uninteresting. I always thought she looked particularly spooky. It's not the worst movie ever made and it does have that "greed" speech, but even that seemed a bit contrived.

Maybe watching this back in the day would have made a greater impression, I think Gordon Gekko played by Michael Douglas is a great performance, and the green Bud Fox by Charlie Sheen fits in very nicely.I don't get the Wall Street world and never will I guess, but I can see the glamor and money and esteem by the peers if you do it well. That is what this is all about, making money and thereby making a name for yourself. In such a competitive world, wouldn't all try to cheat just a little if they had the knowledge to it...This is a good film, has a lot of content I can't understand, but the basics is alright, if Greed is Good, well if you don't get caught up in it or caught by doing something illegal to achieve it, yes then it might be worth it.

If the 1960s were about peace and free love and the 1970s were about a bit less peace, punk and more free love, the 1980s were about power, money and greed. Nowhere is that better demonstrated than in this fantastic encapsulation of the decade by director Oliver Stone.Stone,famous for tackling controversial subjects his way, followed up his Oscar for Platoon the previous year by getting his teeth into the murky world of investment banking in Manhattan. Whilst the film's plot is a fairly standard reworking of the naïve man selling his soul to the devil, it never bores.Michael Douglas (who received an Academy award)appears to enjoy himself hugely as Gordon Gekko, a corporate raider with no moral compass beyond the deal itself. Charlie Sheen plays his metaphorical apprentice, Bud Fox, an ambitious trader looking for the big client who can provide him with his ticket. Fox hustles into Gekko's office, a spectacular lair at the top of a skyscraper, and impresses enough to get his chance. He cements his future by using inside knowledge gained via his father's position at an airline to make Gekko (and himself) more money. The trappings of success follow: a corner office, a girlfriend, an amazing apartment full of art and gadgets. But gradually Gekko's price for success emerges, and Bud has to choose between financial success and family values.Looking back across a quarter of a century Wall Street can appear overblown. Daryl Hannah's big hair, Michael Douglas's big slicked back hair, the striped shirts with white collars, the braces, the big houses, the bigger offices, the money. But this was the 1980s, the decade of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Regan, yuppies in Porches drinking champagne for breakfast. This is a film from the 1980s about the 1980s and it nails the decade's frivolous superficiality against a backdrop of literally life changing business deals.If for nothing else, enjoy this film for Gekko's infamous 'greed is good' speech, whilst remembering that real people inspired this character, amongst them Michael Milken, who practically invented the market in junk bonds. Charged with nearly 100 counts of insider trading in 1989 he cut a plea bargain, went to prison for 2 years and paid a $600m fine. Today his net worth is estimated to be around $2billion.