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19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe story, a dystopian tale with heroes and villains and lots of triumphs and reversals, is so busy and so inherently interesting that the movie is entertaining until the finish - or the sort of finish. As only the first part of the story, Atlas Shrugged doesn't end, it stops.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe central battle between fearsomely independent corporate mavericks and hostile big government has been updated in a half-baked, unconvincing way that's exacerbated by button-pushing TV-style direction, threadbare production values and blah performances except for that of Taylor Schilling in the central role.
- 38Boston GlobeLoren KingBoston GlobeLoren KingWith a plot devoid of suspense and characters without complexity, Rand's iconic line elicits merely a yawn, or a shrug.
- 30Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzThe acting is so poor and the story so badly told that the viewer's feelings about Rand's novel - an epic ode to free-market fundamentalism - are almost immaterial.
- 25Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThis movie is crushingly ordinary in every way, which with Rand I wouldn't have thought possible.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertNow I am faced with this movie, the most anticlimactic non-event since Geraldo Rivera broke into Al Capone's vault.
- 20Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternI wanted to give this movie a fair shake, though I can't pretend to be an admirer of Ayn Rand's writing. But the movie, the first installment of a projected trilogy, doesn't give the book a fair shake.
- 0Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversWho's the idiot responsible for this fiasco? You can't blame the Tea Party, an organization of 9 million that the film's producers are exploiting to get butts into seats. There's an object lesson in objectivism for you.