Ava-Grace Willis
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Alistair Olson
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Stephanie
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Lomedin
It's hard to believe that a movie like this has been made. I didn't read the book, although I guess it can't be far from it. The whole purpose of Atlas Shrugged seems to be the glorification of big companies, of those who -even when they already have more than enough- want to have more and more money. Throughout the 90 minutes of its duration, I was waiting for anything to proof me wrong, to actually defend the oppressed and the middle/low classes, but no. This movie is completely, utterly centered in those heads of corporations and the people with the big money and their "painful struggle" to get more of what they only care about: money. They even go on calling an individual owning an oil company a hero! A human who believes it is fine to destroy anything in order to drill to extract gas for just one goal: more money. They even go to the extent of accusing the government of "limiting" the power of the corporations!! When in reality it works the other way around: it is corporations that control governments.This movie is not particularly boring, although its content is not for everybody at all. If we go into moral values, this film should be burnt and forbid. Only bourgeois and executives who don't give a damn about anything or anybody but themselves would enjoy this propagandist crap. Interesting how one of these people, in the movie, says that she never hurt anybody in her life. Yeah, right. I suppose they believe their money grows in the trees and no animal (human or otherwise) and/or Earth globally is not affected by libertarian rubbish, flawed way of thinking and its destructive and egotistic methods.Freedom? Sure. Liberalism? Perhaps. Libertarianism? NEVER.
teejay-87305
Destroys everything that the book is about. No plot, no suspense, awful characterizations, poor acting and the ruined dialogues. Cannot believe that anyone who has read the book could like it. Anyone who has not read the book would not understand the movie.It is a disjointed jumble of poorly crafted scenes, which does not convey any coherent meaning or story. A remarkably bad job all around. Anyone who has read the book would know that it has portrays remarkable characters, has extraordinarily meaningful dialogues, and an unstoppable plot. The movie has killed it all. Alas. It is a funeral of the book, a third grade treatment of a great book. A worst interpretation and representation of the book than this movie is impossible.
mr-rahvar
I love Rand and her Philosophy , Read most of her books and loved it .But about the movie , if I hadn't read the atlas shrugged novel , seeing the movie I actually couldn't understand the connection between characters and what is the plot all about and what's going on. I think someone who hasn't read the book can't catch the grip and it may cause a lot of missunderstanding about Atlas shrugged.Plot is so spreaded , there is no background to it so the audience undersatnds characters as they should to. filming is lifeless , Acting is lifeless , you can not feel anything while watching the movie , you can't immerse yourslef in the movie . so hey say it's a low budget movie , common , for such a great novel as Atlas shrugged , making such a movie is absolutely unacceptable and desrespect to the book.I actually had downloaded part 1,2,3 and was excited to watch them all , but finishing watching the first part I removed the rest also not to spoil the great taste of atlas shrugged which I got from reading the book.I can say the worst movie I have seen in 5 years.
Isabelle Vanhouver
I saw this a week ago, and now that I have stared, openmouthed in horror, at that travesty of a Part II, I feel I can appreciate this movie. For one thing, the casting--Dagny is lovely. She is cool and contained and lovely--an empress of steel. When she calls Jim "brother dear," the blood chills a little. When she and Hank (we'll get to him in a moment) interact, it's significantly less gag-worthy than it was in the book. She is about as human as the written Dagny will get, and the fact that it was a B-list star makes it better--I have a fresh canvas, a totally new impression. I don't look at her and think "oh, that's Reese Witherspoon" or "Oh, that's Angelina"--I think "Oh, that's Dagny." Oh, Dagny, would that they had kept you--you and your finely molded, sublimely interesting face. Would that they had not foisted upon me in your place a wrinkled, falsie-wearing imitation. Hank, meanwhile, is not quite as I had pictured him--but he's enough. He's in good shape, he's cleanshaven, he's just about old enough, he has an interesting, keen face and a clear, no-nonsense voice. He is as good as a low-budget film version of Hank is going to get, appearance-wise, and his acting is brilliant. His very eyebrows speak volumes. His interactions with Lillian are on point--the scene where he rolls off of her and she carelessly adjusts her strap is great. The rest of them are fairly well-cast as well. I particularly appreciate Lillian--visually, she's on-point: almost beautiful, but with some jarring absence, some imperfection. This is very well realized here. Francisco I found a little disorienting, mainly because of the hair, but he played the part like a pro. James is a departure from what I imagined--I always thought older, less attractive. His cheekbones startled me. Nevertheless, he and Dagny pass well for siblings. The scenery is great, and the atmosphere is as good as time constraints allow--it could, as someone else noted, do with a little more desperation, a little more fear, but one must allow that this was fairly early on in the book and everyone still thought Socialism would work. Bottom line: a masterpiece? Probably not. But did they take what they had and use it as well as they could? I think they at least came damn close. They even managed to pump a little blood, put a little humanity into the film. I commend them. My final words: quit while you're ahead. It only gets worse. Much much worse. Take this Dagny, this Hank, this Lillian and James and Francisco, and savor them. Savor them while you still can. Because before you know they've all aged thirty years and Hank sounds like a smoke-choked version of the Godfather.
