About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Horton Dave Mitchum as Dave Mitchum. John Putch. More like this. Storyline Edit. The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Railroads are the main transportation. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, are mysteriously disappearing. Dagny Taggart, COO of Taggart Transcontinental, has discovered an answer to the mounting energy crisis - a prototype of a motor that draws energy from static electricity.
But, until she finds its creator, it's useless. It's a race against time. And someone is watching. Rated PG for brief language. Did you know Edit. Goofs Steam locomotives were still in use back in when the book was published, however they had long passed from the scene by which is the year that the movie is set in.
Staying faithful to to the crash as described in the novel created what can be considered a possible anachronism. Alternate versions In the theatrical release, when John Galt is revealed at the end of the film, his face is fully lit and visible.
In the DVD and Netflix release, his face has been darkened and obscured. User reviews Review. Top review. What would Ayn say?
The earliest review for this movie I read for this movie appeared to have been written by someone who hadn't even seen the movie yet! It was also posted the day before the theatrical release In fact, the extreme polarization of the majority of IMDb users appears to be strictly along political lines, since most gave the movie either a 10 or a 1!
Yet while plowing through didactic conversations about government intrusions on economic freedom, soap operatic subtexts and sci-fi suppositions, one thing about Atlas Shrugged, Part II: The Strike becomes clear: That extra money bought a more palatable movie experience than Part I. The cast has been upgraded — this may be the first sequel not returning a single key actor — and the movie actually moves on occasion, with jet plane chases, a crash landing and a train disaster among the special effects improvements.
Something to keep viewers alert between the sluggish polemics, as the big, bad neo-Marxist government in a not-too-distant future loots the creations, talents and bank accounts of even 99 percenters. Samantha Mathis takes over the role of railroad magnate Dagny Taggart, less glamorous than Taylor Schilling in the first film but effective within the script's stilted confines. Dagny is frazzled by the government's closure of her John Galt Line, named for the mysterious figure convincing the world's greatest minds to vanish, leaving a needy world behind.
Dagny has her hands on a machine that can transform air into energy but regulations are blocking that, too. She's also having an affair with married steel tycoon Henry Rearden Jason Beghe , a one-man Tea Party refusing to follow the government's orders.
Will they now pour even more money into the theoretical Part III? The new film more or less picks up where the first one left off — at least once it gets past its TV-style grabber opening and goes into flashback mode for most of the movie. Plus, the cast has magically changed. This is very much the fault of the filmmakers who invariably light and photograph her in the most unflattering ways possible.
Sweeney talking like Clint Eastwood. The whole thing is pretty absurd and badly dated. Hell, some of the shots of planes in flight would have been right at home in an episode of Thunderbirds. But at bottom, this is a niche movie on a par with any cheapjack faith-based picture, which is why it resembles one — and only the most ardently faithful need apply.
Rated PG for brief language. The comments section is here to provide a platform for civil dialogue on the issues we face together as a local community. Xpress is committed to offering this platform for all voices, but when the tone of the discussion gets nasty or strays off topic, we believe many people choose not to participate. Xpress editors are determined to moderate comments to ensure a constructive interchange is maintained.
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