Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 (Blu-ray) PG-13
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 8, 2011
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jon Polito, Graham Beckel, Jsu Garcia, Matthew Marsden, Taylor Schilling, Patrick Fischler, Rebecca Wisocky, Grant Bowler, Michael Lerner & Edi Gathegi | |
Directed by | Paul Johansson | |
Screenwriting by | John Aglialoro & Brian Patrick O'Toole | |
Composition by | Elia Cmiral & Steve Weisberg | |
Director of Photography: | Ross Berryman |
Entertainment Reviews:
[A] DIY megaproduction... whose ambition vastly exceeds its technical command.
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Time Out
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.
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WORLD
This comically tasteless and flavorless adaptation of Ayn Rand's bombastic magnum opus delivers her simplistic nostrums with smug self-satisfaction.
New Yorker
Rating: C- --
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.
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News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
The awfulness of Atlas Shrugged continues a trend, since the cinema has never treated Rand very well.
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Tikkun
Rating: 1/5 --
Atlas Shrugged: Part I is in many ways charmingly oblivious to its inherent contradictions and the fact that its capitalist titans appear to be squatting in old, abandoned Dynasty sets, eating food-court baked potatoes.
New York Times
Rating: D+ --
The film is curiously sterile and lifeless, hardly the stuff of revolution. It feels more like an ideologically reversed Tucker: The Man And His Dream, written and performed by robots.
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AV Club
Product Description:
This adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1957 objectivist novel ATLAS SHRUGGED tells the first installment in the story of a dystopian future in which a collectivist society has forced the great thinkers of the world to go on strike, leaving the functioning world without scientists, engineers, philosophers, or artists. Set against this stark backdrop, a railroad heiress named Dagny Taggart tries to bring her failing company back from the brink with the development of a new alloy to repair breaks in the lines, and hopefully calm the business' vital corporate partnership with an oil company. But with the endless bureaucracy of an evil and corrupt government fighting her at every turn, and her own inept brother battling her for control, Dagny soon finds that in order to set things right in her world, things must be set right in the world at large.