The good guys tell it like it is and are never wrong, while the bad guys bully each other and make wobbly rationalizations. Naturally, when a good guy drops truth on a bad guy, the latter can only blubber and stammer, because otherwise we might get a genuine exchange of ideas. United States. Atlas 3 Productions. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 39 minutes. Related news. Jan 6 Collider. Jan 3 MovieWeb. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content.
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With virtually nothing that happens onscreen resembling human behavior or emotion to any real extend, the film can't even function as propaganda. The favorite book of many young sociopaths you meet in business schools, it's all about a bunch of rich crybabies who don't want to share their toys so they break them and go home. The prior installments weren't very good movies, and it should surprise few that this last one is the worst of the lot.
Rand's parable is meant to showcase just how much our world needs the best of us, but this adaptation only does so accidentally -- by revealing what movies would be like if none of the best of us worked on them. A missed opportunity to speak to anyone other than the converted, but at least as the culmination of its makers' will. To find fault with the Atlas Shrugged franchise because of its politics is like complaining about Birdemic because it gets the ornithology wrong.
Why dwell on the details when there are giant, embarrassing flaws staring you in the face? Setting the action in the present day but continuing to pretend that those businesses represent the height of American economic power is absurd; either the action needed to be set in period or different industries should have been substituted that would make sense today.
In the real world, such means of transportation has long since become the norm in Europe and Asia but not in the United States, where the stiffest opposition comes from conservatives, who have lined up against such projects because they are seen as government boondoggles.
Some subsequent torture of the revolutionary by government goons — Galt is conspicuously placed in crucifixion position — looks both silly and unconvincing, as does his escape with Dagny into the night. James Manera Screenwriters: J.
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