Rating of
0.5/4
Horrible Crap Movie Regardless of your Politics
Josh C - wrote on 12/26/12
My wife and I couldn't get through 25 minutes of this movie. It was just a horrible and dull movie. If we wanted to be assaulted with political propaganda we would watch a documentary or the news. Unfortunately, we wanted to be entertained and the bottom line is that this movie was not built to entertain, it was built for propaganda just like the book that started the movement in the 50's.
First off, if you don't know the beliefs of Ayn Rand then you may want to read about it a bit and see for yourself if it makes sense to you. It's not my cup of tea, but to each their own. Anti-religion, anti- charity and pro-greed just seems like a polarizing and sad world to me.
Secondly, the movie is hard to watch because they haven't adapted it to film by updating the premise. It is about railroad companies in the future who are creating new types of metal that will change the industry and the government that wants to stop them. If you are going to create a sci-fi movie set in the near future, at least come up with a reason their technology is inferior to today's technology and not just "well that was how Ayn Rand depicted it in the 50's".
Thirdly, the acting was horrible. Perhaps it was just their dialog that was long and drawn out but it was so bad at a times that I thought a porn star was going to come out and turn the whole thing in to a cheesy porno.
Lastly, the movie isn't getting bad reviews because it is a good movie that just happens to have political views that differ from Hollywood's. It is getting horrible reviews because it is a poorly constructed movie that is almost unwatchable unless you go into watching the movie with one thing in mind: Watching political propaganda that agrees with your vision of America.
