It was a bad omen when *four* of the trailers were for religious movies.
Normally I see the AS films twice in one day. This one... I was ready to walk out halfway through. THERE IS NO HANK REARDEN.
Damn. Easily the weakest of the three films... they didn't put much effort into part three. Much of it's expository narration, they spend WAY too much time in the gulch, and the New York scenes are rushed and claustrophobic. It's almost as if they were rushing to get it done so they could claim they finished the trilogy.
THERE IS NO HANK REARDEN--even though arguably the best scene in this section of the book is his rejection of the Steel Unification Plan. His departure is the keystone setting off the penultimate collapse. They covered it by narration instead of portrayal.
Lots of recycled footage from the first film. Elia Cmiral is back for the score, but they also reused parts of the original score as well--not just the themes, but the 2011 recordings themselves.
The actors aren't even phoning it in, they're just reciting lines like they're in a rehearsal. Poor casting for Francisco, since he looks about 50 to Dagny's 20, and they're supposed to have been childhood friends. They completely neglected Ragnar, turning him into some half-wit thug instead of the raging terror he is in the book. THERE IS NO HANK REARDEN.
Galt's speech... wasn't. It's as if they took the start and finish, then filled about four minutes of space with the current TEA Party bromides instead of the positive, demonstrative statements about the right of free minds. They skipped the dinner party and went straight into Project F; no mention of Project X. Read the book for a better sense of what happens after Galt's speech.
...and THERE IS NO HANK REARDEN.
Normally I see the AS films twice in one day. This one... I was ready to walk out halfway through. THERE IS NO HANK REARDEN.
Damn. Easily the weakest of the three films... they didn't put much effort into part three. Much of it's expository narration, they spend WAY too much time in the gulch, and the New York scenes are rushed and claustrophobic. It's almost as if they were rushing to get it done so they could claim they finished the trilogy.
THERE IS NO HANK REARDEN--even though arguably the best scene in this section of the book is his rejection of the Steel Unification Plan. His departure is the keystone setting off the penultimate collapse. They covered it by narration instead of portrayal.
Lots of recycled footage from the first film. Elia Cmiral is back for the score, but they also reused parts of the original score as well--not just the themes, but the 2011 recordings themselves.
The actors aren't even phoning it in, they're just reciting lines like they're in a rehearsal. Poor casting for Francisco, since he looks about 50 to Dagny's 20, and they're supposed to have been childhood friends. They completely neglected Ragnar, turning him into some half-wit thug instead of the raging terror he is in the book. THERE IS NO HANK REARDEN.
Galt's speech... wasn't. It's as if they took the start and finish, then filled about four minutes of space with the current TEA Party bromides instead of the positive, demonstrative statements about the right of free minds. They skipped the dinner party and went straight into Project F; no mention of Project X. Read the book for a better sense of what happens after Galt's speech.
...and THERE IS NO HANK REARDEN.