It was great to be alive, once, but the world was perishing. Factories were shutting down, transportation was grinding to a halt, graineries were empty--and key people who had once kept it running were disappearing all over the country. As the lights wink
The most anticlimactic non-event since Geraldo Rivera broke into Al Capone's vault. A muddle of sterile dialogue that seems ripped steaming from the torrid pages of Investor's Business Daily. Only someone very familiar with Ayn Rand's 1957 novel is likely to understand the film at all, and I doubt they will be happy with it. Involves a state plot to discourage bold entrepreneurs by preventing the use of better steel in railroad tracks. - One star