Some people have asked me if I’ll be reviewing the Atlas Shrugged movie, since one of my gigs is reviewing science fiction movies, and Ayn Rand’s original novel certainly qualifies as science fiction. (I’m also familiar enough with the novel to craft this parody of it.) But I thought it would be nearly impossible to do justice to the source material in movie form; a TV miniseries would probably be more appropriate to fit that sprawling, didactic story.
So I’m glad the inimitable P.J. O’Rourke has saved me the trouble. He’s seems to have done a good job of dissecting the movie’s flaws (and advanced word has been very negative just on the story-telling and movie pacing fronts) without rejecting the underlying message.