Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Best movie ever!

Awesome Movie

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

When other reviewers write that many people rate this movie low because they disagree with Ayn Rand's philosophy and values, they fail to realize that her characters - this movie's characters - are unsympathetic and almost across the board unlikable.The Screenplay and its character development, with the necessary creation of drama on which the story hinges, is the foundation of any film. This production failed from the start. I won't even go into the extreme mess they made of the politics behind the corporate machinations depicted here, except to say that this story was like Wall Street's answer to its fraudulent actions that caused the long-term collapse of our country's economy and the immediate collapse of the whole world's. Who can sympathize with those whose only goal is undying greed?In the end, who can or will identify or empathize with the characters here who show active disregard and even distaste for other human beings, like the ones buying the movie ticket?

The film gives the impression that it's written by someone who's never been exposed to but always fantasised about class. It's then acted out in a spree of self-marginalising desperation of contrived spite for all humanity as an attempt to appeal to those who like to imagine themselves unrewarded heroes and yet-proclaimed masters of society by embracing such a caricature ideology... well, perhaps after all those viewers simply enjoy being assholes and had no further intellectual pursuits in deriving solace from these plot lines disguised as some embarrassing screen fiasco. Doomed from the inception and no increase in budget (which indeed looked very small and misspent) could salvage this train wreck. The change in actors only made it look more miserable.

i feel strongly about the book, so my review is tinted, or biased in that respect. it's worth a watch, and good follow up to part one, which was just interesting enough for me to check out this one.i liked the beautiful visuals, and nice lighting, although the occasional "sci-fi channel sped up shot" ruins a lot of it. not to mention the occasional crooked shot. what's up with that? the rearden steel bracelet looks awesome. esai morales for francisco d'anconia is perfect casting. 20th century motor company appears on a baseball cap. jumpjets are cool.i didn't like the disaster movie elements. dagney shouldn't have crashed the plane. those trains didn't crash. did they? a large part of it is thereby reduced to a common disaster movie, with cheesy jokes. and characterize francisco d'anconia as a proper playboy, will you? wesley mouch is pretty disgusting person in the book, here he's almost handsome, and doesn't come across as an evil character.i also think that this movie is pretty much been made for people who read the book, and are anxious to see an adaptation. without prior knowledge it's probably unwatchable. if your read the book it holds attention, is somewhat faithful, but leaves you wanting for something better to come out down the line. it deserves a five out of ten stars for it.TLDR: if you like the book, watch this. if you don't know the book, stay away from this movie.

As captivated as I was by Atlas Shrugged (and The Fountainhead) when I was 19 years old, I find the novel to be sorely lacking in both literary as well as philosophical rigor now that I am well into my forties.Now, onto the movie...It's simply a very bad interpretation of the novel.There are a number of mileposts that have to be honored on the development of the screenplay, but the screenwriter takes a lot of what's said by the characters in the novel and places them too literally into the mouths of the actors in the film. While Rand may have been a philosophical heavyweight and a writer whose output was as voluminous as it was coherent, no one ever accused her of having a gift for dialog and neither Duke Sandefur nor Brian Patrick O'Toole nor Duncan Scott will ever be confused with Aaron Sorkin. I may have outgrown what I consider to an unnuanced and juvenile philosophy -- Rand's Objectivism -- but I still have a tremendous amount of respect for its tenets, and I was very eager to see a steady-handed, well-informed and capable film made from the narrative and ethical standards that Rand set forth. It's as clumsy and difficult to watch as was Gary Cooper's performance as Howard Roarke, and the movie's dialog is terribly as stilted and dry.... and if that weren't bad enough, the casting in this installment is nearly as bad as the first one. I'd watch Taylor Schilling read a Chinese restaurant menu phonetically for two hours, which was enough to pull me through the first film, so the new casting of a less attractive and much older Dagny is a disquieting speed-bump in the transition between acts one and two. After that, Arye Gross as Ken Dannager? He's more of a James Taggart in my mind. Diedrich Bader as Quentin Daniels? Isn't he about 20 years too old for that role? A lot of this comes down to personal interpretation, but it just feels like there was too much dependence on the idea that everyone involved in the film on the producers' side of the camera had to be a libertarian first, without regard for whether or not they had any skill at their job in production -- which, of course, runs absolutely contrary to the principles of objectivism, and which makes this film feel like more of a manifesto than one of Richard Halley's symphonies. There are some truly excellent c- and d-level actors in Atlas Shrugged, but they all seem to be cast into the wrong roles. If you've read (and re-read) the novel like I have, and if at one time or another Rand played an important role in your development as a person (whether or not she's still a constellation that guides your character), you're almost certainly going to want to/have to see this trilogy, but I'm sorely disappointed in the producers for the way that they've cast the movie and written the script. The rest of it -- cinematography, effects, score -- is all (literally) just set-dressing. The script is a total failure, and the casting just makes the producers look like incompetents.