This film is set in the adrenalin and cocaine driven financial boom years of the eighties, and the hurried shouted dialogue throughout the film reflects this. Parts of the dialogue are undecipherable, and much of it is in the jargon of Wall Street financiers which completely baffled these two viewers.
So we endured most of the film trying to work out what was said, and the flow of the film never got going.
After about halfway, the plot begins to gel, and it's easy to see what's basically going on. Still no depth of dialogue and the plot progresses on and on.
Oliver Stone does have a talent for bringing out depths of characters, and there's one scene where Michael Douglas addresses the shareholders which is very good indeed, erudite and well acted.
The rest of the film however is a dated financial swindle plot that races headlong to the half hearted finish.