Director Oliver Stone crafts a surprisingly compelling romantic drama, but its politics lack nuance.

Wall Street didn’t need a sequel. Oliver Stone’s 1987 descent into the moral cesspool of 1980s finance stands alone as one of the defining artistic representations of that decades mood and excesses. Ruthless money-making machine Gordon Gekko — masterfully portrayed by Michael Douglas, who won an Oscar for his performance — has endured as one of film’s greatest villains. There’s no reason we had to know what happened after the inevitable prison sentence we know is coming as that film draws to a close.

Jason Campbell couldn’t miss, the defensive line looked like a wrecking crew, Carlos Rogers actually intercepted a pass (and returned it for a touchdown!), and Baby Jesus announced his preference for Joe Gibbs over Jon Kitna in a beating of the Detroit Lions so savage that Daniel Snyder had plenty of free time to stop worrying about the state of his football team, and start worrying about how the rides from his terrible theme parks…