Usually I don't reward a movie with something like 2/10 but boy, this one is just, oh man. I thought the second movie was bad. I actually thought second movie was bad and this one will be the same level of badness. I was wrong.
Cast changed.. again, budget was probably about 100$, skill and effort put into it.. well, OK, maybe not 0, but flimsy 2/10.
This time, casting went even lower, into below-C-category of TV actors, somewhere along letter H or something like that. I'm amazed that every movie from this "trilogy" was worse than the previous one. And the first one was plainly OK. Second one was cheap and rubbish(y) kinda looking all around, but this one is just bad all across the board.
Acting was just not giving a f#$%. Sets were two, three mid sized badly dressed rooms, one or two cabins in the woods, a lot of stock footage, etc. Now, I know I shouldn't judge the movie by how little resources they had to work with, but here that is just so much obvious and worse and counterproductive. Maybe someone would have done it better with those same resources, not the case here.
Script is awful, rushed, pure cheese, nonsensical and bad acting does not help it, at all. Editing is just random, confusing and poorly done. There's a bunch of random scenes for a few seconds and then back to main plot. For example, the scene where we find out about Jim Taggert's wife and her death, and flashbacks that follow it, it's just cringe and laugh inducing.
It's beyond me why this movie exists in this poor form and execution in the first place. I guess they had to make some kind of a closure to the project. Now I wish that rumor/joke few years back, about third movie being a musical, were true.
This is an absolute waste of time. Don't watch it. It's not good, it's not good-bad, it's just straight bad. Blandly bad. If you want to see your favorite G list TV stars fumble around, reciting some dumb script that is supposed to be a movie adaptation of Ayn Rand socio-emo-economic manifesto, don't. Read a book instead, even if you read it already.
Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?
2014
Action / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi
Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?
2014
Action / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi
Keywords: ayn rand
Plot summary
Approaching collapse, the nation's economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brutal force against the nation's most productive who are mysteriously vanishing - leaving behind a wake of despair. One man has the answer. One woman stands in his way. Some will stop at nothing to control him. Others will stop at nothing to save him. He swore by his life. They swore to find him. Who is John Galt?
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Inconceivably bad, yet it exists!
Not so bad
People need to be more reasonable. It's a miracle this third installment even got made. Obviously there was a very strong drive to finish the project even though they've had very little encouragement all along the way. The acting is good and on the budget it has it's much better than I expected. Many low budget projects would kill to look this good. Sure they have to shorten the elements from the Book just like they did with Game of Thrones. This is actually a better writing job than the last season of GOT which was just nuts. This follows the book OK, it get's the main themes across and many people just seem to want to hate Ayn Rand and do what they can to belittle the concepts. These days with the Strong leftist control of most all of mainstream media, you see these ideas coming across on some of the top College Campuses that used to be bastions for Free Speech, now they have been taken over by very totalitarian overseers that do anything to Squelch free speech and brainwash our kids to their insane ideologies. It's very surreal and hard to imagine how we let this happen, but there it is. Movies like this are important and need our support. The books of Terry Goodkind are fantasy books with these concepts too and are very good. It was a good movie overall and better than many new releases on Netflix. Give it a chance and give some slack too for the effort it took to even complete these three films with so much obstruction in Hollywood trying to prevent it.
poorly written story
A car company changes its pay structure to one based on the workers' needs. John Galt (Kristoffer Polaha) refuses to go along and vows to stop the motor of the world. He convinces other industry leaders to go on strike and disappear to his hideaway. He has also invented a revolutionary engine to power the world. Dagny Taggart (Laura Regan) goes in search for the mysterious John Galt. Her plane is brought down by an electrical shield and Galt carries her out of the wreckage. She decides to return to the world to fight for her railroad business against the dictatorial Head of State Thompson and her incompetent brother James Taggart (Greg Germann). Meanwhile the world is collapsing without the captains of industrial and under attack from the pirate Ragnar Danneskjöld.
The story and dialog are clunky. This is basically a ninety minute sermon. Nobody in real life speaks like this. It makes the story very unwieldy. The Galt hideaway is a huge disappointment. It's a bunch of ski lodges and cabins with a farmer's market. With all the greatest minds in the world, it needs to be a magical Tomorrowland. I was glad when Dr. Floyd Ferris brings out a Star Trek scanner but that's the only thing. Sure Galt has his motor but they don't let it be amazing. It's a horribly flat and boring first half hour. There is an interesting section where Dagny returns home to battle his idiot brother. However, even that section is messed up by simplistic ideas like Minnesota. Apparently Minnesota is the only wheat growing state. It only adds to the ridiculousness. It makes any theory advanced by this movie sound stupid. Then there is the final battle. I didn't know torture requires a complicated machine. It seems like a car battery and a jumper cable would have done the same job. It's also one of the worst guarded torture site ever imagined. It's an ignominious end to a poorly executed story.