It’s too bad they couldn’t travel back in time and stop this movie from being made.
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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Mar 28, 2006
Reviews for A Sound of Thunder
Have you seen the trailer? If so, then that's as close to watching the movie as you should get.
Amusingly clueless - the cinematic equivalent of your crazy uncle who tries unsuccessfully to incorporate hip-hop lingo into his speech so that the kids will be impressed.
D'oh! Wouldn't you know it, someone steps off the path, crushing a butterfly and sentencing us to true movie terror.
A Sound of Thunder is worth noting, if only as a real contender for worst movie of the year.
It’s somehow refreshing to know that the spirit, if not the flesh, of Edward D. Wood Jr. lives on.
At the risk of making an overly broad and limiting generalization, it's generally wise to make sure an action movie's plot has actually kicked into gear by the time the first hour has elapsed.
The special effects in this pic make Land of the Lost look like Jurassic Park.
Burns still can’t carry a picture, and Kingsley is laughably bad as the corporate meanie.
Forget about all those phony CGI ape/dinosaurs, this film really posits the impossible when it predicts that the Cubs will win two World Series before Y3K.
The concept was given more entertaining treatment on various episodes of Star Trek and a Halloween episode of The Simpsons.
Some of this might have passed muster in a Twilight Zone episode, which would have been an ideal home for such a tale.
A Sound of Thunder looks cobbled together from a half-baked screenplay and underdone special effects, but it's made with a certain heedless zeal that makes you smile if you're in tune with it.
One redeeming feature of this picture is that it will make great fodder for those make-fun-of-the-movie TV shows.
As Ryer (Burns)...says, 'We have to make sure this never happens again.' We beg you.
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.
Based on the Ray Bradbury short story of the same name, this is a colassal disapopintment - unworthy of the memorable source material.
The special effects are on par with a basic film you’d see about a giant squid on the Sci-Fi Channel, and the story is just as boring.
A interessantíssima premissa é desperdiçada pelo roteiro capenga, as atuações sem vida, os efeitos visuais constrangedores e pela direção surpreendentemente amadora de Hyams.
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