Critic Reviews

Has there ever been a Hollywood adaptation of a major novel as faithful and yet so misguided and downright strange as the three-part version of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged that now comes to a conclusion with the third installment?

We get it, we get it: Capitalism is good, government is bad. But Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? is worse.

It’s hard to imagine anyone, however, having a “Eureka!” experience watching these lame movies, this latest least of all.

“ASIII” feels like the most scattershot entry in the trilogy, despite a relative rally toward competence with the second movie.

Unfortunately, Who Is John Galt? substitutes the most knee-jerk Tea Party beliefs for Rand's far more ambitious and complex philosophy.

The movie's so slipshod and half-assed that I almost feel for Rand, whose ideas have proved enduring enough that they at least deserve a fair representation, if only for the sake of refutation.

It’s a movie where everything, from the sets to the cast and crew, is an unconvincing, low-cost substitute for something else.