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A Sound of Thunder (2005)

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Reviews Counted:94

Fresh:7

Rotten:87

Average Rating:2.9/10

Consensus: Choppy logic and uneven performances are overshadowed by not-so-special effects that makes the suspension of disbelief a nearly impossible task.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sci-fi violence, partial nuidity and language

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Theatrical Release:Sep 2, 2005 Wide

Box Office: $1,717,608

Synopsis: In A SOUND OF THUNDER, based on a short story by Ray Bradbury, director Peter Hyams (END OF DAYS, TIMECOP) creates a world where time travel is possible and life as we know it is threatened. In the... In A SOUND OF THUNDER, based on a short story by Ray Bradbury, director Peter Hyams (END OF DAYS, TIMECOP) creates a world where time travel is possible and life as we know it is threatened. In the year 2055, Charles Hatton's (Ben Kingsley) company, Time Safari, will take anyone with a big enough wallet back 65 million years for the thrill of their lives: dinosaur hunting. Thanks to Tammy, a talking computer created by Dr. Sonia Rand (Catherine McCormack), the time-travel team returns with clients to a specific moment 65 million years ago, with explicit directions not to leave anything behind, change anything, or bring anything with them back to the future. Expedition leader Travis Ryer (Ed Burns) is certain that the protocol is flawless, but Dr. Rand isn't so sure. She knows that Hatton will cut any corners necessary to make bigger bucks, and she's waiting for the worst. Sure enough, a safari goes amiss when Ryer's gun malfunctions and he sends the clients scampering for cover from an irate dinosaur. The team returns to 2055 shaken but unscathed. The next day, all over Chicago, mysterious trees and vines begin springing up through sidewalks and out of walls. It seems that something went terribly wrong on the last jump, but no one can pinpoint just what it was. According to Rand, the problem will only worsen as "time waves" continue to sweep the planet, resulting in 65 million years of evolution and growth catching up with the present time. Soon, monstrous creatures--giant baboons with lizard-like features, bat-faced teradactyls, and huge sea serpents--abound, leaving Ryer and his team in constant danger as they fight the clock to determine what caused the anomaly and to save life as we know it. [More]

Starring: Edward Burns, Catherine McCormack, Ben Kingsley, Jemima Rooper

Starring: Edward Burns, Catherine McCormack, Ben Kingsley, Jemima Rooper, David Oyelowo, Joshua Oppenheimer

Director: Peter Hyams

Director: Peter Hyams
Screenwriter: Gregory Poirier
Story: Thomas Dean Donnelly
Producer: Moshe Diamant, Howard L. Baldwin, Karen Baldwin, Jan Fantl
Composer: Nick Glennie-Smith
Studio: Warner Bros.

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  • Sound of Thunder, A
  • Suspense Thriller based on the famous short story by master of fiction Ray Bradbury. In the year 2055, a technology has been invented that enables people to go back in time to hunt dinosaurs. When one such expedition to the Prehistoric past unwittingly makes a fatal mistake it dramatically impacts the course of evolution, setting off waves of destruction that ripple toward the modern world and unleashing an army of fearsome creatures that never should have existed. Two scientists race against time to fix the catastrophic error while their world collapses around them and every minute brings the human race closer to extinction.
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    Kingsley proceeds through his scenes on autopilot, and Burns is the kind of actor you cast as the hero when a piece of wood is unavailable.

    Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
    09/02/05
    Jason Anderson
    Jason Anderson
    Globe and Mail
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    A catastrophe of bad acting, ludicrous science and conspicuously cheap special effects that can't even follow its own internal logic from one scene to the next.

    Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
    05/26/06
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
    Combustible Celluloid

    Despite its cardboard characters and technical ineptness, it's earnest, unpretentious and, overall, surprisingly entertaining.

    Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
    09/02/05
    William Arnold
    William Arnold
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer

    To describe what’s wrong with this perfectly serviceable pulp scenario requires only one word: everything.

    Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
    09/01/05
    Chris Barsanti
    Chris Barsanti
    Filmcritic.com

    A Sound of Thunder takes an interesting science fiction concept and relegates it to the secondary role of servicing a limp action/adventure movie.

    Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
    09/02/05
    James Berardinelli
    James Berardinelli
    ReelViews
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    Based on the Ray Bradbury short story of the same name, this is a colassal disapopintment - unworthy of the memorable source material.

    Full Review Source: Cinefantastique | comment Comment
    05/12/09
    Steve Biodrowski
    Steve Biodrowski
    Cinefantastique

    A catastrophe of bad acting, ludicrous science and conspicuously cheap special effects that can't even follow its own internal logic from one scene to the next.

    Full Review Source: SPLICEDWire | comment Comment
    09/01/05
    Rob Blackwelder
    Rob Blackwelder
    SPLICEDWire

    A green-screen mess without much rumble.

    Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
    09/10/05
    Kit Bowen
    Kit Bowen
    Hollywood.com

    So perfect in its awfulness, it makes one seriously consider a theory of unintelligent design.

    Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
    09/07/05
    Scott Brown
    Scott Brown
    Entertainment Weekly
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    There's very little in this Jurassic dork of a movie that works.

    Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | comment Comment
    09/13/05
    Matt Brunson
    Matt Brunson
    Creative Loafing

    Lobotomized from a Ray Bradbury short story, A Sound of Thunder stars Edward Burns as a scientist (insert raucous laughter here)...

    Full Review Source: Philadelphia Weekly | comment Comment
    09/29/05
    Sean Burns
    Sean Burns
    Philadelphia Weekly

    Told by director Peter Hyams with a minimum of logic, little suspense and indifferent acting.

    Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
    09/02/05
    Robert W. Butler
    Robert W. Butler
    Kansas City Star

    Sing, muse! Sing of a century-hence future when we shall all/Drive impractically bulky cars and pay through the teeth/To hunt dinosaurs on a TimeSafari to the past!

    Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
    09/01/05
    Peter Canavese
    Peter Canavese
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    It’s too bad they couldn’t travel back in time and stop this movie from being made.

    Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment Comment
    09/02/05
    Kevin Carr
    Kevin Carr
    7M Pictures

    [not] just a bad movie, it is one that is so hopelessly ridiculous, so relentlessly inept, that it sullies the art of filmmaking as a whole.

    Full Review Source: Killer Movie Reviews | comment Comment
    08/31/05
    Andrea Chase
    Andrea Chase
    Killer Movie Reviews

    The film is full of rumbling sounds that will make your innards tremble (at least in some theaters). But that's about all it has going for it.

    Full Review Source: Christianity Today | comment Comment
    10/11/06
    Peter T. Chattaway
    Peter T. Chattaway
    Christianity Today

    Bradbury's classic 1952 short story is brilliant and thought-provoking; the movie isn't. On the bright side, it's bad in a campy, "ooh, it's on cable at 2am" kind of way.

    Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
    09/02/05
    Sarah Chauncey
    Sarah Chauncey
    Reel.com

    A monument to bad cinema.

    Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
    09/06/05
    Walter Chaw
    Walter Chaw
    Film Freak Central

    An exciting, uneven thriller that explores the ripple effect of altering one tiny moment in the distant past.

    Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
    09/02/05
    Judy Chia Hui Hsu
    Judy Chia Hui Hsu
    Seattle Times

    The kind of bad that can only be appreciated by those who have seen the “faithful” three-hour straight-to-video adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds

    Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
    09/01/05
    Erik Childress
    Erik Childress
    eFilmCritic.com
     
     
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