Best movie of this year hands down!

Waste of time

Simply A Masterpiece

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

It's the curiosity more than anything. I've already seen the first two "Atlas Shrugged" movies; can't really leave the trilogy unfinished, right? This is what drove me to finish an unsatisfactory series of movies. And the final entry finishes things off in the worst possible fashion.I'm not even concerned with Ayn Rand's philosophy, only with Part III's complete mishandling of it. This is a cartoon with robotic performances, non-existent production values and haphazard direction. The dialogue's stilted, none of these TV actors have any breathing room, and the story rolls out in a hurried low-standards manner. It's so cheap and so cut-rate that any message (even one delivered with a smug sledgehammer) is smothered in the execution. At a certain point, it just becomes unintentionally funny. Just not funny enough to be entertaining.Is this at all like the book? I have no idea, but once was more than enough with this movie. What a sad end.

Let me start off by saying, I hate the idea of reviewing a movie without finishing. Especially a move that's only 90 or so long. But then comes a series like atlas shrugged.I loved the first one. Had no interest in the concept but I found it compelling. Hate Taylor schilling, but thought she nailed dagny, and played the best role of her career. I made the mistake of getting invested into the cliffhanger of a series.then part 2 came. The worst sequel of any series ever. Every.single.actor changed. I know why, and I understand it. But every single actor was a downgrade. Suddenly Dagny was a 39 year mother of two and the movie was filled with B-actors. I'm pretty sure I wrote my first IMDb review the night I saw it. Then part 3. Oh god. I've had it sitting here for free for a few days and I just kept finding excuses to avoid the heart break but here we go.Part 3. Immediately the very first thing you'll notice is it's cheap. Not charmingly indie low budget but straight up filmed in someone's freaking house with natural lighting cheap! I was done with the movie in the first scene.it lacks the Hollywood magic entirely. Right now I'm about 20 minutes in and it's so poor, that I've already decided to turn it off when I'm finished with my lengthy review. That's a first. A movie so bad that you have to write a poor review before you can not finish it.Also Dagny isn't as bloody awful of a fit as she was in part 2, but she's not better. She lacks all the elements that schilling brought to the character in the first movie. I noticed another reviewer say she in no way carrys herself in an executive mannor and that couldn't be more spot on. She has no character at all. She's simply a blonde woman that could be standing in line at Starbucks. She missed her calling as a background dancer because she's entirely unnoticeable. Also the childhood bf role choice is almost hilarious. He's clearly 20 years older. No leather jacket will put a band-aid on that reality. And galt. I won't go into the depths of the disappointment of that immediate reveal. He's clearly the lowest budget version of as close to Chris pine/josh duhamel they could find. If you didn't notice that watch it again and tell me I'm wrong. Cus he looks like their love child except near chubby and a lifeless actor.The narrating bits would haven't been so off putting if they weren't spoken by such a terrible, unlikeable, spiritless narrorator. And the editing. The editing is just what puts this movie into the unwatchable category. I'm not being mean to be mean when I tell you I'm subscribed to half a dozen YouTube channels that edit better in daily videos than this entire movie. Sony Vegas guys. It's only like $90. The actors across the board are not simply unknowns. They're bland cut outs in a film chicken winged by its terrible quality. The leads are bad. The supporting actors aren't bad enough to blame, but they're certainly forgettable. I gave the film a 3/10 because there were no boom mics dipping in the shots.its not funny bad or train wreck bad. It's simply poor. It's just the disappoint after the disaster after the tease (the series in reverse order if your poetic sense is lost). Part 2 was a 1 for me. So this isn't as flat out terrible. Part 1 was a 7.5-8.Bonus:Now to reflect that fact that this isn't about the budget but rather how the $5,000,000 was used here is a list of good and great movies that you SHOULD WATCH made for $6,000,000 or lessThe guard, beginners, paranormal activity 1 ($15,000!only $15,000!!!), saw 1, napoleon dynamite ($400,000), Donnie darko, reservoir dogs, super, rocky (even now the film quality is better than atlas shrugged 3),safety not guaranteed, mad max, clerks.So please just avoid atlas shrugged pt 3. It's not funny bad. It's not shaking your head bad. It's just made with the lack of flair and integrity that we watch films to see. There's nothing there for the viewer. It's almost as if a box were checked, finished atlas shrugged- move on.it must've been so hard promoting a movie knowing it offered nothing

The third installment in this series is somehow worse than the first two. Lazy exposition (voiceovers galore!) and lame acting make an already-bad story that much worse. Ideologically, I'm biased - I disagree with pretty much everything Ayn Rand had to say - but I'm not talking about ideology here. On an objective level, this is just a bad movie. It's boring. It's confusing. It makes no effort at continuity with the first two installments. The best part of this movie was Galt's monologue on the airwaves, and even that was executed in the most obvious, hackneyed way. I imagine that this movie was made not by film people, but by Objectivism people. That's cool; everyone needs to get their message out somehow. Just saying, they could have made a YouTube video - cheaper and more to the point. Oh, and I LOVE that this was funded by a Kickstarter. I'm sure Ayn Rand would have been so happy to know that donations from fans went into bringing her story to the big screen. The book was better - you care about the characters much, much more.

Lets see, we a have a "motor" that takes electricity from the air and produces enough electricity to run the west coast. All from a metal box the size of a farmers outhouse. With no less than a secret saying boldly lettered above the door to open the door. Next, we have the secretive, and highly prized Project F. This little gem of an interlude is a smaller metal box with lots of pretty blue, green and red LED's plastered all over it. This Project F will extract information from any poor SOB connected to it via cheap looking jumper cables. Poor hero John Galt is hooked up to this thing to get him to change his mind about being a true blue Capitalists and spill the beans on the whereabouts of the other true blues. So, no doubt, using Galts own "motor" electricity he is switched on and starts to hum and smoke. Wow! Project F turns out to be nothing more than an extension cord plugged into a 110 AC electrical outlet. Anyway, Project F is a government job and no doubt headed up by the Pentagon. This movie would have been perfect as another Austin Powers comedy.