Atlas Shrugged: Part I

  • 2011


MOVIE IS controversial ideologically undistinguished forgiving
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21 %
12 % Rotten
$ 4 Million
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Positive Reviews 11
Negative reviews 28
Average Rating 2.0/5
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1.5
It feels more like an ideologically reversed Tucker: The Man And His Dream, written and performed by robots. Av Club
3.0
It feels more like an ideologically reversed Tucker: The Man And His Dream, written and performed by robots. Av Club
1.3
Lets say you know the novel, you agree with Ayn Rand, youre an objectivist or a libertarian, and youve been waiting eagerly for this movie. Man, are y .. Rogerebert
1.5
Part one of a trilogy that may never see completion, this hasty, low budget adaptation would have Ayn Rand spinning in her grave. Variety
3.0
While staying true to Rands vision, Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 suffers from poor directing and it lacks the sleekness it needs to connect with audiences. We Got This Covered
1.9
The first in a proposed trilogy, Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 is nearly as stilted, didactic and simplistic as Rands free market fable.
1.5
Flubbed, under produced representation of the first third of Ayn Rands still controversial novel bodes ill for parts two and three. The Hollywood Reporter
1.0
Its underlying worldview has little to do with its failure.... this couldve, and by all rights shouldve, been a TV miniseries. E Film Critic
2.5
As only the first part of the story, Atlas Shrugged doesnt end, it stops. San Francisco Chronicle
1.3
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 Dal .. The Globe And Mail
1.9
MPAA rating: Unrated, a small bit of profanity, adult situations. Rogers Movie Nation
0.0
Ayn Rands monumental 1,168 page, 1957 novel gets the low budget, no talent treatment and sits there flapping on screen like a bludgeoned seal. Rolling Stone
3.1
Though a bit stiff in the joints and acted by an undistinguished cast amid TV movie trappings, this low budget adaptation of Ayn Rands novel neverthel .. New York Post
1.5
The acting is so poor and the story so badly told that the viewers feelings about Rands novel an epic ode to free market fundamentalism are almost imm .. Az Central
1.9
About to lose his long held rights to Ayn Rands novel, and perhaps to cash in on apparent Tea Party interest and support, producer John Aglialoro ... .. Boston
0.5
It also delivers exactly what its credentials suggesta clunky, frequently silly, dubiously acted, barely directed TV movie. Mountain X
1.5
Theres a whole lot of declaiming here, with people talking at, and not to, each other about their political viewpoints, and with none of the character .. Movies
2.0
This Sharktopus budget level cheap, badly acted, clumsily written and stiffly directed movie... still has a lot to offer film fans on both sides of th .. Movies
0.5
This comically tasteless and flavorless adaptation of Ayn Rands bombastic magnum opus delivers her simplistic nostrums with smug self satisfaction. New Yorker
2.0
The shame of Atlas Shrugged: Part I, irrespective of politics and prose, is that a work so long discussed has been so blatantly bastardized in the nam .. Blogs Indie Wire
1.0
Look, the problem with adapting Atlas Shrugged in the first place is that its just not a great story.
2.0
Think of it as The Omega Code for corporations. There might be a good story in there if it werent trying too hard to make a political point. 7M Pictures
0.5
Apart from its deficiencies as fiction, whatever its philosophical limitations (the rich and able should only help themselves in Rands Objectivism), t .. La Weekly
2.0
For decades, Atlas Shrugged has been considered unfilmable, too long for one movie and too didactic for mass appeal. The version that finally emerged .. Tamp A Bay
4.5
Serves up a perfect society based on abdication by the rest of us to a snobby affluent egghead elite, in a sort of brazen brainocracy. And with a weir .. News Blaze
1.0
It has a story, I suppose, and it even kind of has conflict... Mostly, it has talking. Weirdly esoteric talking about weirdly esoteric things. Antagony & Ecstasy
4.5
Because of unrest in the Middle East, theres no more oil, and gasoline is $37 a gallon. Io9 Gizmodo
3.8
Or, to paraphrase Captain Malcolm Reynolds on the short lived program Firefly, governments are for getting in a mans way. Movie Crypt
0.5
Sitting through this picture is like watching early rehearsals of a stage play thats clearly doomed. reason
4.0
Motion multiplies emotion in Rio, a 3 D animated feature from Blue Sky Studios, the company that gave us the Ice Age series. Wsj
1.0
Even the staunchest Objectivists will object to a final product that is, for all intents and purposes, little more than this decades Battlefield Earth .. Tiny Url
3.0
I am not advocating for Rands political point of view. It is worth a discussion. Only it deserves a better discussion than is given in Atlas Shrugged: .. Tri City Herald
2.5
Not all books should be made into movies, and this is one of them. Boston Phoenix
1.5
DIY megaproduction... whose ambition vastly exceeds its technical command. New York Time Out
3.5
You can feel them straining against the limitations moreso than the budget, the time compression. They fought the good fight as well as they possibly .. Need Coffee
4.5
That promise is threatened when leading politicians enact legislation to limit Reardon steels expansion and hamstring Dagnys innovations. World Wng
1.5
Atlas Shrugged is a passionless experience that feels like a TV movie/miniseries. Its flat, poorly plotted, thinly performed and dull to its core Blu Ray Ign
2.5
Kudos to Atlas Shrugged for bringing Ayn Rands iconic novel to the big screen at long last. Now, about that script ... Washington Times
2.5
It doesnt help that Schillings face only seems capable of expressing two emotions.
3.0
Although its not as bad as its trailer might suggest, this first part of a projected three part series will probably please the already converted but .. News Observer
0.6
A talky bore that spends too much time in wood panelled offices and at chatter heavy parties that were clearly shot on the cheap. Toronto Star
1.5
An underwhelming documentary about her, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, debuted in 1997. Tik Kun
1.5
However controversial, Rands ideas deserve better than this watered down, uninspired bilge.



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