Atlas Shrugged: Part III (2014) Reviews

• why am i doing this to myself?

  dragokin2015-11-15

  When i thought that Part II was worse than Part I, Part III went one step further. With another change in the cast, it's been difficult again to follow what's been going on. With the ideas of Ayn Rand diluted in sub-par writing and below average acting, Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? became a perfect background for an afternoon nap. No pun intended. Once again, i'm not sure why the producers insisted on making three movies instead of opting for a TV show. Nowadays this seems to be a gateway to a broader audience. Besides, the book Atlas Shrugged had enough contents and ideas for eight to ten one-hour episodes.

• Complete let down

  profff-010202015-09-10

  This movie is terrible. I've read the book and this is not a representation of it. This movie is a let down on every front. The story line is scabbed together. The cinematography is terrible. Acting is less than second rate. Cohesion sucks. There is less climax in this movie than there is in a retirement home. What's with the music in the movie? Every transition scene has this grandiose symphony playing, making it seem like there is a plot point or twist coming up. I suffered through this junk because I had a fast forward button. Which is sad since I thought the first movie in this series was pretty well done. Then the second movie sucked. The third movie (this one) was so exponentially terrible compared to the first two that scientists are still trying to come up with a logarithmic formula to accurately represent the decaying quality from the first to third movies. Watch the first movie and accept that it never goes anywhere. Don't watch this.

• Just...Terribawful

  jason_wisdom2016-03-30

  I am a big fan of the book, and I liked the first movie. That said, this was awful. The story is rushed, character development is thin to none, and some of the best scenes from the book are missing. Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand, she understood the beast (in her opinion) very well, and represented the conflict through engaging dialogue in fiction. There is none of that here. Instead, there is a string of passionate speeches given by the central star but he comes across somewhere between a crazy man on the New York subway, and a poorly edited Anonymous speaker on YouTube. He does not come across as a veritable world leader. There are cameos from various B-list news figureheads, making this appear more a reunion of The Celebrity Apprentice than beautiful fictional story with a timely message. Like others, I saw it to complete the trilogy, and out of respect for an integrity-based way of doing business that is legitimately threatened today. This movie does not help the cause.

• It gets worse

  Mr-Fusion2015-08-04

  It's the curiosity more than anything. I've already seen the first two "Atlas Shrugged" movies; can't really leave the trilogy unfinished, right? This is what drove me to finish an unsatisfactory series of movies. And the final entry finishes things off in the worst possible fashion. I'm not even concerned with Ayn Rand's philosophy, only with Part III's complete mishandling of it. This is a cartoon with robotic performances, non-existent production values and haphazard direction. The dialogue's stilted, none of these TV actors have any breathing room, and the story rolls out in a hurried low-standards manner. It's so cheap and so cut-rate that any message (even one delivered with a smug sledgehammer) is smothered in the execution. At a certain point, it just becomes unintentionally funny. Just not funny enough to be entertaining. Is this at all like the book? I have no idea, but once was more than enough with this movie. What a sad end.

• Watching this will kill more brain cells than huffing paint thinner

  jaredrbowcutt2015-12-17

  I grew up a minor fan of Ayn Rand. I loved Anthem and enjoyed reading Atlas Shrugged as a youth. Based on this, I went into viewing this hopeful and excited to see if they could translate the movie to current societal and economic realities. What a letdown. This series was dismal. There is not way to call this a success unless you force yourself to like it because it is associated to Rand's ideology. I will not go into depth in this review. This movie does not deserve it. Here is a quick synopsis of some of the sillier moments: 1) Dagny and Hank travel to Wisconsin to find an engine that runs on Ozone (no idea how Hank got the plans for the engine or why he thought it would still be in a long shut down factory). They scenery choice the director chose for this trip is the famous deserts of Wisconsin? Of course, the engine (that Galt is extremely protective of) is hanging out in a hidden back room. Ugh 2) I laughed out loud in several places despite comedy not being the aim. At the end a security guard, at gun point, refuses to move from the door (and is shot) because he says, "I am not supposed to make decisions for myself". Dagny screaming when the coal fields were on fire also elicited chuckles. The dialog is mind numbingly silly. 3) The movie is made up of the following scenes over and over: Limos driving through slums, Railroads and fat cats drinking in what looks like a hotel bar. In the end, this series clearly ended up as a propaganda piece. I have no problem with ideological movies presenting a message. Typically, those kind of movies incorporate the ideology into the movie. This one patches a movie around an ideology. Poorly. Steer clear or acknowledge you were warned.