Atlas Shrugged Part II

[baumer]

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[Ozymandias]

0% RT score.Has anyone seen this epicness yet?

[MovieGuyKyle17]

Nope, but I did find this at my college today

[Captain Craig]

As with Part One it seems I'm the only one to have seen this film.

My grade: C

I think one of the things this film suffers from is that it's a bit predictable. I mean that just from a point of view of being familiar with movies. I've never read the book but tried and the narrative there is overly verbose.

Gifted and intelligent people are dissapering. These people just so happen to be of the entrepreneurial and scientifically minded class of people. Progress is made on the unique "atmospheric energy engine" but you just know it's going to slip away from our heroine as the breakthrough of making it run has happened....along with the guy responsible for doing so.

Unlike many dystopian or apocalyptic films where the story picks up some point after the terrible events that placed the world in that state. Atlas Shrugged is like watching the clock wind down on the 4th quarter. The government is seizing more and more. It's stifling creative forces all for the "greater good" but what that's really doing is spreading equal misery. The film clearly isn't going to be for some people. If you think "social justice", socialism or anything that shares Marxist philosophies is the best way to go---this movie isn't for you. I'd argue history has already shown these concepts imperfect but many keep trying them anyway.

Thats's not say capitalism is perfect(I'm saying that, not the film) but here it is the answer, or the biggest piece of that answer. Restrictive government is the problem, not a co-partner to the solution.

The films intellegencia are being spirited away by a person known as John Gault. The theme of the movie is "Who is John Gault?" As the film ends our heroine Dagny Taggert has seemingly found John Gault in his secret location he calls Atlantis. He's hidden in shadow of course meaning that a third film will resolve the problems of the world. Which are energy consumption mainly.

I liked the actress who played Dagny more in the first film. This film recasts 98% of the cast but it does contain gems of character actors from Back to the Future, Robocop, Star Trek and Family Ties to name a few. It's not a griping drama but it moves along at just a brisk enough pace to keep you from being totally bored....unless you need explosions every 5min and then in that case you are likely to get bored.