Lost me at the crash and carrying her around.

lol but this one was shocking right off the bat when he carried her from the plane to the car... from the car to the lounger then from the lounge to the bed..... and he SAYS... he knows he can walk!! So in the space of 1 minute she transforms into a helpless mills and Boone girl?

After seeing the first part, I decided to buy the book and read it. It read to me like a mystery novel set in an uncertain future. The first two parts of the book are good. The third part seems like it wasn't written by a novelist at all. I was unsure about how the third part could be made into a good movie.

The book, believe it or not, is even worse in terms of how much it focuses on Galt. He is the only one in the valley doing anything interesting while all of the captains of industry have turned into gardeners. Maybe the copper guy and the banker and oil guy were still plying their trade in the gulch, but everyone else was doing a job they seemed unsuited for. I wasn't impressed by the gulch portrayed in the book.

The focus didn't have to be all on Galt in the gulch. He was interesting enough because his presence was hinted at in the first two parts and then revealed, along with his backstory at the motor company, that was enough. The book (and subsequently the movie) put more importance on the man instead of the mission, which doesn't serve the mission well.

At least the movie did a good job of making the gulch more interesting. They could do that by setting the movie in the near future. The doctor invented a useful device because he didn't have to deal with regulation and red tape. The gulch needs to be a microcosm of what the world would be like if the strikers had their way -- all of the things they would invent, all of the production that they would make more efficient, how they would improve everyone's quality of life through their ideas -- the movie did a better job of this than even the book did.

Much of the rest of the film actually felt more rushed than the book. In the book, Dagny goes back to the world outside and eventually gets grinded down by the railroad unification board until the railroad falls apart and she has nothing left, in the movie it seems like this all happens within a week, when in reality, out of frustration with the red tape and spurred on by Galt's speech, workers quit her railroad over a very long time period and the rail lines deteriorate without proper maintenance. Eventually the Mississppi bridge collapses and combining this with Rearden's disappearance to the gulch, she decides its time to go.

The ending is rushed and makes no sense. Why would a group who takes a vow to depend only on themselves then sacrifice themselves to save one man? This is another way where Rand places more importance on Galt than the mission statement. It is illogical that they would risk their lives to save him. I'm not saying that they wouldn't risk themselves to save a friend out of friendship, but it is portrayed that they save him in order to keep the cause going, when the cause is about more than one guy.

Galt joined the Taggart company years before so that he would have a job to pay for his activities on the outside. This is mentioned in the book but isn't clear in the movie. He saw her for the first time on the Taggart platform because he was working there.

I wished I could have said that they did the best they could despite the source material, and they did improve a little on the source material in some areas, but the execution in others wasn't great. Pacing, etc. -- they could have tweaked a few more things to make it work.

At least they cut down the speech to about 5 minutes -- that was much more realistic. Galt wouldn't have been successful in the real world if his speech wasn't short and to the point.

I also thought it was unrealistic for Hannity and Beck and Paul to still be on TV -- a government like the one in the film would have figured out a way to silence them years ago. Hannity is sometimes in favor of big government, though, so his appearance puzzled me for more than one reason.

Yeah this movie really stunk. The first two were not great but thought they were decently made and were entertaining enough. But this third one... ugh, it was boring and felt completely disconnected from the previous story.

I didn't read the book but I really thought Taggert was being set up as a love interest with Reardon, they seemed to be getting to know each other and had common interests and goals. And then out of nowhere Galt is her "forever," which seriously felt insulting.

I also guess the writers never watched part 2? The last few minutes of part two Galt went to her after the crash and she was still in the plane and he held out his hand and she grabbed it, this one starts off with her out of the plane when he finds her..lol