Synopsis
A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
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Cast
- Taylor SchillingDagny Taggart
- Grant BowlerHenry "Hank" Rearden
- Matthew MarsdenJames Taggart
- Edi GathegiEddie Willers
- Jsu GarciaFrancisco D'Anconia
- Graham BeckelEllis Wyatt
- Jon PolitoOrren Boyle
- Patrick FischlerPaul Larkin
- Rebecca WisockyLillian Rearden
- Michael LernerWesley Mouch
Recommendations
- 50
San Francisco Chronicle
The 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. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
The 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. - 40
Variety
Part one of a trilogy that may never see completion, this hasty, low-budget adaptation would have Ayn Rand spinning in her grave, considering how it violates the author's philosophy by allowing opportunists to exploit another's creative achievement -- in this case, hers. - 40
Time Out
Campy but never dull, this first of three installments ends on a fiery cliffhanger. The completion of parts two and three would represent a victory for irrationality. - 38
Boston Globe
With a plot devoid of suspense and characters without complexity, Rand's iconic line elicits merely a yawn, or a shrug. - 30
Arizona Republic
The 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. - 25
Chicago Tribune
This movie is crushingly ordinary in every way, which with Rand I wouldn't have thought possible. - 25
Chicago Sun-Times
Now I am faced with this movie, the most anticlimactic non-event since Geraldo Rivera broke into Al Capone's vault.
