There must be an optimal solution to that catastrophe that is related to the collapse of the economy. Unemployment reaches 24%. Gas is $ 42 per gallon, and railways are the only means of transport. But perhaps there is an optimal solution to be discovered by Dageny Taggart, managing director of Taggart across continents, by solving the escalating energy crisis by issuing a prototype of an engine that draws energy from static electricity. It seems to be a difficult task and a race against time may change things or change the world.
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.
Austin Chronicle
October 19, 2012
Atlas won't be the only one to shrug off this tiresome load.
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.
Variety
October 13, 2012
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.
Philadelphia Inquirer
October 13, 2012
A disaster as a film, Atlas also is laughable in its presentation of Rand's ideology.
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.