Until she got her eye plucked out of her skull in Kill Bill Volume 2, Daryl Hannah brought lifelessness to every role she was in, including her performance as Darian Taylor, the "great spender of OTHER people's money", in Oliver Stone's otherwise good movie, Wall Street. As much as this movie tried to show the greed and decadence that existed in the mid 1980's, the film makers tried, and failed miserably, to cash in on the popularity of this young actress, at the time, only to have cast one of the worst actresses of a generation. Every scene which did NOT include Daryl Hannah was a pleasure to watch and listen to. You really felt the greed in Michael Douglas' Gordon Gecko and could feel the changes in Charlie Sheen's Bud Fox, but whenever Daryl walk on the screen, the entire energy flow that was present beforehand, was completely obliterated by her presence. Up until this role, her best parts were a mermaid (Splash), an android (Blade Runner), and a cave-woman (Clan of the Cave Bear - there were no speaking parts in this one.). After those roles, when she had to play an actual human being who could talk, she totally ruined everything she was in, including this movie which I would have given a 9 or 10 to if she wasn't in it.
Review of Wall Street
