It was great to be alive, once, but the world was perishing. Factories were shutting down, transportation was grinding to a halt, granaries were empty--and key people who had once kept it running were disappearing all over the country. As the lights winked out and the cities went cold, nothing was left to anyone but misery. No one knew how to stop it, no one understood why it was happening - except one woman, the operating executive of a once mighty transcontinental railroad,... (Full plot summary below)
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It was great to be alive, once, but the world was perishing. Factories were shutting down, transportation was grinding to a halt, granaries were empty--and key people who had once kept it running were disappearing all over the country. As the lights winked out and the cities went cold, nothing was left to anyone but misery. No one knew how to stop it, no one understood why it was happening - except one woman, the operating executive of a once mighty transcontinental railroad, who suspects the answer may rest with a remarkable invention and the man who created it - a man who once said he would stop the motor of the world. Everything now depends on finding him and discovering the answer to the question on the lips of everyone as they whisper it in fear: Who *is* John Galt?
Leave your thoughts about Atlas Shrugged: Part I.
| Spectrum (St. George, Utah)Bruce BennettThere is something inherently noble about making a movie that gets the audience to think a little deeper. A dose of clarity and a pinch of fun never hurt either. |
| AV ClubScott TobiasThe film is curiously sterile and lifeless, hardly the stuff of revolution. It feels more like an ideologically reversed "Tucker: The Man And His Dream," written and performed by robots. |
| WORLD Megan BashamThe very nature of Atlas Shrugged -- turning on its head all the typical clichés of who's a hero and who's a villain and its refreshing honesty about the way Washington works-gives it a certain liberating energy. |
| Moving Pictures MagazineAnnlee EllingsonHowever controversial, Rand's ideas deserve better than this watered-down, uninspired bilge. |
| TikkunDavid SterrittThe awfulness of Atlas Shrugged continues a trend, since the cinema has never treated Rand very well. |
| io9.comCharlie Jane AndersEvery cult needs its own wacky trainwreck of a movie... and now the cult of Ayn Rand gets Atlas Shrugged, Part 1. |
| Needcoffee.comWidgett WallsYou can feel them straining against the limitations--moreso than the budget, the time compression. They fought the good fight as well as they possibly could. |
| New York TimesCarina ChocanoThe resulting film, directed by Paul Johansson, feels rushed, amateurish and clumsy. It's not just the ideologies that feel oddly out of step with the present day, but the clothes, hairstyles and interiors. |
| New York PostKyle SmithThough a bit stiff in the joints and acted by an undistinguished cast amid TV-movie trappings, this low-budget adaptation of Ayn Rand's novel nevertheless contains a fire and a fury that makes it more compelling than the average mass-produced studio item. |
| Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallAs a cinematic effort, Atlas Shrugged: Part I is competent; in service to Ayn Rand's epic novel, it's less so. |
