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Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012)

Atlas Shrugged: Part II
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5%
Average Rating: 3/10
Reviews Counted: 22
Fresh: 1
Rotten: 21

Critics Consensus: Poorly written, clumsily filmed and edited, and hampered by amateurish acting, Atlas Shrugged: Part II does no favors to the ideology it so fervently champions.

0%
Average Rating: 2.2/10
Reviews Counted: 11
Fresh: 0
Rotten: 11

Critics Consensus: Poorly written, clumsily filmed and edited, and hampered by amateurish acting, Atlas Shrugged: Part II does no favors to the ideology it so fervently champions.

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The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Unemployment has risen to 24%. Gas is now $42 per gallon. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear at the hands of the unknown. Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental, has discovered what may very well be the answer to a mounting energy crisis - found abandoned amongst the ruins of a once productive factory, a revolutionary motor that could seemingly power the World. But, the motor is dead... there is no one left to decipher its secret... and, someone is watching. It's a race against the clock to find the inventor before the motor of the World is stopped for good. Who is John Galt? -- (C) Official Site … More

Rating:
PG-13 (for brief language)
Genre:
Drama
Directed By:
John Putch
Written By:
Brian Patrick O'Toole , Duke Sandefur , Duncan Scott
In Theaters:
Oct 12, 2012 Wide
On DVD:
Feb 19, 2013
US Box Office:
$3.3M
Runtime:
1 hr. 52 min.
Atlas Distribution - Official Site

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Cast

  • Samantha Mathis
    Samantha Mathis
    as Dagny Taggart
  • Jason Beghe
    Jason Beghe
    as Henry Rearden
  • Esai Morales
    Esai Morales
    as Francisco d'Anconia
  • Patrick Fabian
    Patrick Fabian
    as James Taggart
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    Kim Rhodes
    as Lillian Rearden
  • John Rubinstein
    John Rubinstein
    as Dr. Floyd Ferris
  • Ray Wise
    Ray Wise
    as Head of State Thomps...
  • Richard T. Jones
    Richard T. Jones
    as Eddie Willers
  • D.B. Sweeney
    D.B. Sweeney
    as John Galt
  • Diedrich Bader
    Diedrich Bader
    as Quentin Daniels
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    Paul McCrane
    as Wesley Mouch
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    Robert Picardo
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    Bug Hall
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    Arye Gross
    as Ken Danagger
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    Rex Linn
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    Michael Gross
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Critic Reviews for Atlas Shrugged: Part II

All Critics (22) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (21) | DVD (1)

Seriously, if this is the best promotion of itself that the free market can manage, it really would benefit from the help of a Ministry of Culture or something.

Full Review… | October 15, 2012
Alan Scherstuhl
Village Voice

Director John Putch struggles to find balance or generate a single spark from the clunky mix of romance, political diatribe and thriller.

Full Review… | October 15, 2012
Sheri Linden
Los Angeles Times

The producers are going to have to hire a better director if they want moviegoers to be curious enough about this Galt guy to buy a ticket for the presumptive third and final chapter.

Full Review… | October 15, 2012
Manohla Dargis
New York Times

It's consistent with its predecessor as a somewhat awkward translation of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel to our current era, handled with bland telepic-style competency.

Full Review… | October 13, 2012
Dennis Harvey
Variety

A disaster as a film, Atlas also is laughable in its presentation of Rand's ideology.

Full Review… | October 13, 2012
Tirdad Derakhshani
Philadelphia Inquirer

If the novel Atlas Shrugged is ultimate libertarian porn, then the first two installments of the screen adaptation are soggy softcore.

Full Review… | October 13, 2012
Todd McCarthy
Hollywood Reporter

There are ironic footnotes in cinema history because they champion the free market yet fail miserably in it.

Full Review… | June 9, 2013
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

The Bad Boys II of ****ty propaganda films, morally and aesthetically corrupt yet compulsively watchable in the broad strokes. Somewhere, in heaven, Eisenstein is laughing. Hard.

November 5, 2012
Rob Humanick
Projection Booth

The acting is better than in Part 1 but the fact this is the middle segment leaves the audience that might like it dissatisfied

Full Review… | October 23, 2012
Jackie K. Cooper
jackiekcooper.com

The film's excruciating unwatchability transcends politics.

Full Review… | October 19, 2012
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

Atlas won't be the only one to shrug off this tiresome load.

Full Review… | October 19, 2012
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

Rand's detractors will hate the movie as much as they do her, but her fans will be satisfied ...

Full Review… | October 18, 2012
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

A niche movie on a par with any cheapjack faith-based picture, which is why it resembles one -- and only the most ardently faithful need apply.

Full Review… | October 16, 2012
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

It's still kinda bad, but at least this movie won't be an industry punchline for years to come. ... Oh, what a difference competence makes.

Full Review… | October 15, 2012
William Bibbiani
CraveOnline

The portrait of American gloom and doom has its layers of meanings and philosophies, but I'd rather approach Atlas as a clumsy B-movie with occasional entertainment value.

Full Review… | October 14, 2012
Brian Orndorf
Blu-ray.com

New viewers aren't expected to jump into the dense story now, and anyone coming back for seconds is predisposed to believing this is the most important movie of the year. Sean Hannity or another right-wing mouthpiece told them so.

Full Review… | October 12, 2012
Steve Persall
Tampa Bay Times

A stupid person's idea of what a smart movie sounds like.

Full Review… | October 12, 2012
Roger Moore
Tribune News Service
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Audience Reviews for Atlas Shrugged: Part II

½

Ayn Rand's industrialists fight against the Fair Share Act, which further strangles the economy.
First, the most unfortunate thing about this film was the endorsement that the real Sean Hannity gave to the fictional Hank Rearden. Additionally, protesters directly referenced the Occupy Wall Street rhetoric. The one-to-one relationship between the modern day right wing and Rand's objectivists is bullshit, and it's a shame that this film's creators got sucked into Rand's abduction by the right wing. After all the contemporary right wing is in the pocket of conservative Christians, yet Rand was an ardent atheist; the modern day right wing gives welfare to corporate fat cats whom Rand would consider looters. What does this have to do with the film? The iconography of the protesters and Hannity place the film in our historical moment, not Rand's, which takes us out of the film's world.
Second, I was impressed with Samantha Mathis's performance. Her Dagny was given more to human emotion, which played peek-a-boo amid Dagny's characteristic stoicism. But her acting was the best of the cast. I particularly disliked Jason Beghe's gravel-voiced Rearden.
Finally, the film is poorly paced. The speeches by Readen and Francisco belong in the film, but director John Putch should have taken a walking and talking page from Aaron Sorkin's book to give the film some energy, and the montages of poverty do little to add to the plot.
Overall, this is a controversial film not because Rand is a controversial figure (even though she is) but primarily because the film doesn't really get her.

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Jim Hunter

Super Reviewer

What the heck happened here? They changed the actors for almost EVERY role from the part 1 of this saga. Whose bright idea was that?? This could have been an interesting continuing story, but I found the new actors way too distracting....were they all busy? sheesh...

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itsjustme2004
Cynthia S.

Super Reviewer

½

You'd think after the horrible and horribly boring Atlas Shrugged: Part One that a promised Part Two might just disappear into the ether. If only we could have been so fortunate. Ayn Rand's cautionary opus about the evils of big government is given another creaky adaptation that fails to justify its existence. I feel like I could repeat verbatim my faults with the first film. Once again we don't have characters but mouthpieces for ideology, an ideology that celebrates untamed greed. Once again the "best and brightest" (a.k.a. world's richest) are disappearing and the world is grinding to a halt without their necessary genius. Does anyone really think if the world's billionaires left in a huff that the world would cease to function? The assumption that financial wealth equates brilliance seems fatally flawed. Once again it's in a modern setting where America has gone back in time to value railroads. Once again the main thrust of the inert drama is over inconsequential railway economics. Once again people just talk in circles in cheap locations. Once again the government agencies are a bunch of clucking stooges, eager to punish successful business. Once again Rand's Objectivist worldview is treated as gospel and value is only ascribed to the amount of money one can produce. This time we have a slightly better budget, a better director, and some recognizable actors like Samantha Manthis, Esai Morales, Ray Wise, Richard T. Jones, and D.B. Sweeney as the mysterious John Gault. The story transitions to a ridiculous government mandate that include such incomprehensible edicts like making sure no one spends more money than another person. Can you imagine the paperwork involved? This woeful sequel will only appeal to Rand's most faithful admirers, and you probably don't want to hang out with those people anyway. There's your clue: if you see someone carrying a copy of Atlas Shrugged: Part Two they either lack taste or are far too generous with movies. If there is indeed a concluding Part Three, it will be further proof that Rand's market-based screeds are not accurate. The market has already rejected two of these dreadful movies.

Nate's Grade: D

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Nate Z.
Nate Zoebl

Super Reviewer

Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike is a compelling and provocative film that brings Ayn Rand's classic novel to life. The saga continues with Dagny Taggart and Henry Rearden struggling to hold off a total economic collapse while an oppressive government tightens their control and leading industrialists mysteriously disappear. All of the major roles have been recast, which is rather off putting and doesn't result in any noticeable improvements in the characters. However, the directing is a little better and delivers a clearer vision than the first film had. Additionally, the special effects are fairly well-done for an independent film, and are used quite effectively to add energy and excitement to the scenes. While Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike doesn't live up to the quality of the source material, it still delivers a solid dramatic thriller.

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Dann Michalski
Dann Michalski

Super Reviewer

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Atlas Shrugged: Part II Quotes


Francisco d'Anconia:
Check your premises!
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– Submitted by Wm R C (2 years ago)
Henry Rearden:
Try pouring a ton of steel without rigid principles.
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– Submitted by Seth E (2 years ago)
Ken Danagger:
The government takes what it wants and taxes what's left.
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– Submitted by F G (2 years ago)
Dagny Taggart:
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
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– Submitted by Molly B (2 years ago)

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