Name: Atlas Shrugged Part 1
Released: 2011-4-15
Cast: Taylor Schilling, Grant Bowler, Matthew Marsden, Edi Gathegi, Jsu Garcia

TheIndependentCritic.com

Richard Propes

Atlas Shrugged is an easily set aside motion picture.

The 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.

While they've produced a competently made film, they haven't pulled off a miracle. Atlas Shrugged is much as you'd expect.

Every cult needs its own wacky trainwreck of a movie... and now the cult of Ayn Rand gets Atlas Shrugged, Part 1.

The awfulness of Atlas Shrugged continues a trend, since the cinema has never treated Rand very well.

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News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)

Lewis Beale

Although it's not as bad as its trailer might suggest, this first part of a projected three-part series will probably please the already converted but bore and annoy just about everyone else.

While staying true to Rand's vision, Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 suffers from poor directing and it lacks the sleekness it needs to connect with audiences.

Atlas Shrugged is a passionless experience that feels like a TV movie/miniseries. It's flat, poorly plotted, thinly performed and dull to its core

To quote: 'The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often [leads] to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

This dubious distillation of Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophy is a glorified smack around the head with a sociology textbook.

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