A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
With its posturing politics and cardboard characterizations, Wall Street is not up to [Oliver Stone's] past standards.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Wall Street isn't a movie to make one think. It simply confirms what we all know we should think, while giving us a tantalizing, Sidney Sheldon-like peek into the boardrooms and bedrooms of the rich and powerful.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
Dramatically inept, the film also muddles its naive moralising.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
rotten:
Watching Oliver Stone's Wall Street is about as wordy and dreary as reading the financial papers accounts of the rise and fall of an Ivan Boesky-type arbitrageur.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
18 Sep 2007
rotten:
The sensibility of this movie is so adolescent that it's hard to take it as seriously as the filmmakers intend us to.