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.
The sensibility of this movie is so adolescent that it's hard to take it as seriously as the filmmakers intend us to.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
18 Sep 2007
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:
Dramatically inept, the film also muddles its naive moralising.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
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:
With its posturing politics and cardboard characterizations, Wall Street is not up to [Oliver Stone's] past standards.