Made on the cheap with no-name stars, this is no better than a stilted anachronistic curiosity, a low-rent version of the eighties' prime-time soap Dallas, with the industrial concerns and sexual mores of 1950s, all, somehow, set in 2016.
Atlas Shrugged: Part I
Who is John Galt?
2011 · 1h 37m · PG-13
Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Paul Johansson
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Atlas Shrugged: Part I
Overview
A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
Director and cast
- Paul Johansson Director
- Taylor Schilling as Dagny Taggart
- Grant Bowler as Henry "Hank" Rearden
- Matthew Marsden as James Taggart
- Edi Gathegi as Eddie Willers
- Jsu Garcia as Francisco D'Anconia
- Graham Beckel as Ellis Wyatt
- Jon Polito as Orren Boyle
- Patrick Fischler as Paul Larkin
- Rebecca Wisocky Cast
- Michael Lerner Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
A talky bore that spends too much time in wood-panelled offices and at chatter-heavy parties that were clearly shot on the cheap.
Atlas Shrugged: Part I is in many ways charmingly oblivious to its inherent contradictions and the fact that its capitalist titans appear to be squatting in old, abandoned Dynasty sets, eating food-court baked potatoes.
Apart from its deficiencies as fiction, whatever its philosophical limitations (the rich and able should only help themselves in Rand's "Objectivism"), the book proves proudly indigestible on film.
This comically tasteless and flavorless adaptation of Ayn Rand's bombastic magnum opus delivers her simplistic nostrums with smug self-satisfaction.
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