Atlas Shrugged: Part III: Who Is John Galt?

2014 "Who is John Galt?"
4.3| 1h39m| PG-13| en
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Approaching collapse, the nation's economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brutal force against the nation's most productive who are mysteriously vanishing - leaving behind a wake of despair. One man has the answer. One woman stands in his way. Some will stop at nothing to control him. Others will stop at nothing to save him. He swore by his life. They swore to find him.

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Evengyny Thanks for the memories!
Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!
Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
SnoopyStyle A car company changes its pay structure to one based on the workers' needs. John Galt (Kristoffer Polaha) refuses to go along and vows to stop the motor of the world. He convinces other industry leaders to go on strike and disappear to his hideaway. He has also invented a revolutionary engine to power the world. Dagny Taggart (Laura Regan) goes in search for the mysterious John Galt. Her plane is brought down by an electrical shield and Galt carries her out of the wreckage. She decides to return to the world to fight for her railroad business against the dictatorial Head of State Thompson and her incompetent brother James Taggart (Greg Germann). Meanwhile the world is collapsing without the captains of industrial and under attack from the pirate Ragnar Danneskjöld.The story and dialog are clunky. This is basically a ninety minute sermon. Nobody in real life speaks like this. It makes the story very unwieldy. The Galt hideaway is a huge disappointment. It's a bunch of ski lodges and cabins with a farmer's market. With all the greatest minds in the world, it needs to be a magical Tomorrowland. I was glad when Dr. Floyd Ferris brings out a Star Trek scanner but that's the only thing. Sure Galt has his motor but they don't let it be amazing. It's a horribly flat and boring first half hour. There is an interesting section where Dagny returns home to battle his idiot brother. However, even that section is messed up by simplistic ideas like Minnesota. Apparently Minnesota is the only wheat growing state. It only adds to the ridiculousness. It makes any theory advanced by this movie sound stupid. Then there is the final battle. I didn't know torture requires a complicated machine. It seems like a car battery and a jumper cable would have done the same job. It's also one of the worst guarded torture site ever imagined. It's an ignominious end to a poorly executed story.
btg-810-920456 I can kind of see where people critical of the movie are coming from but their complaints are very exaggerated. This is a philosophy movie, not a thriller. And its philosophy indicts so many people in one of two classes: Those that have been directed into a dependent state by society, and those that exploit those that have been directed there.The message is what is important and the vehicle that carries it is good enough in Atlas Shrugged 3. I've seen the critics forgive far worse-time and time again. I've all but given up watching movies they say are "good" only to be disgusted yet again by two certified morons in yet another unneeded sex scene to take them seriously. And even Gone with the Wind was the nemesis of the critics when it came out. Fact.People need to learn that the water of capitalism merely carries the addictive poison of statism, and that the cure is not to add more poison and then continue blame drinking water for making them sick. I'd be happy to see it done better but for some reason I don't anticipate many critics with government funded liberal arts educations would feel good about such a message.
TheDancingPanda-692-744536 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
Marcus Patrick Thompson I watched Atlas Shrugged part 3 Its not just bad its Terribad. 3rd cast in three films. The writers actually think the philosophy expounded in the film is profound, where it is actually juvenile and puerile. The villains are comically sinister, its like the actors are winking and nodding to the audience to say yeah we know this script is crap, but I needed a pay check. But of course Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity make an appearance which just upped the buffoon meter. I give the movie 1 1/2 stars because, hey, it is still better than Batman and Robin. The worst movie I've ever seen. I'd say ONLY watch this movie if you want to see the idealized ridiculousness of libertarianism put into film.