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!
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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Reviews for A Sound of Thunder
Just another air-conditioned thrill ride through a house of horrors, implying nothing except the rock-bottom bankruptcy of subtle minds in pop culture.
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.
One redeeming feature of this picture is that it will make great fodder for those make-fun-of-the-movie TV shows.
There is every indication that most of the cast didn't feel Thunder was worth the expenditure of excessive effort.
A gloriously lead-footed excursion into time travel with all the accoutrements of 1950s science fiction: an absurd plot, cliched characters, corny effects and a race against time to save mankind.
Inept on all imaginable levels. The only Thunder heard will be audiences stampeding in droves out of the theater to escape sheer torture and misery.
What manner of beast might have evolved on Earth had a single butterfly been squashed 65 million years ago? Monkeysaurus!
Even in a season of bad action movies, this one marks a new low...doesn't go beyond the level of the most puerile 1940s serial.
I kept waiting for those guys from Mystery Science Theater to pop up in the corner of the screen.
Have you seen the trailer? If so, then that's as close to watching the movie as you should get.
[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.
A good B movie. A Sound of Thunder once again proves that nobody, possibly with the exception of Paul Verhoeven, does sci-fi thrillers better than Peter Hyams.
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