SummaryBased on a short story by award-winning author Ray Bradbury, A Sound of Thunder opens on the year 2055 in downtown Chicago where a very elite travel agency, Time Safari Inc., has cornered the lucrative time-traveling market with an exclusive prehistoric hunting package. Time Safari Inc. is the hottest ticket in town -- until the unthinkable happe... Read More
Directed By:Peter Hyams
Written By:Ray Bradbury, Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, Gregory Poirier
A Sound of Thunder
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24
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12% Positive
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An old formula made fresh.
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The movie recovers from a sluggish opening act to pack some real suspense in its second half.
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May 26, 2016
4
Ray Bradbury's story was brilliant, and is the very reason as to why he is so well known. However, the film adaptation had good intentions-and efforts from both director Peter Hyams and Ed Burns. But, with a poorly written script and not so special effects, the film is nothing more than a flop.
Apr 2, 2023
3
A Sound of Thunder is a classic science fiction film about the butterfly effect on the scale of the evolution of nature. And the first 20 minutes of A Sound of Thunder seems like a great movie, but as delusional as possible, but also not claiming anything more than watching for one evening. But then, the very changes begin - it all looks like a mockery of the very concept of evolution. And all along with terrible CGI graphics, boring action scenes and a slice of plot to correct the consequences. And the ending of the film corresponds to the main film as much as possible. A Sound of Thunder has a good literary source, but the implementation is terrible. You shouldn't waste time on this movie.
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The barometer of the film's undoing is Burns' super-low-key performance, which starts out as a pokerfaced spoof on heroic cool, but takes a misstep more fatal than mere time travel can undo.
25
One redeeming feature of this picture is that it will make great fodder for those make-fun-of-the-movie TV shows.
20
The picture looks as murky as its story line, the sound is tinny, much of the dialogue is flat or confoundingly technical or merely risible, and most everything on the screen looks patently fake.
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The movie fails to conjure the wonder of the Ray Bradbury short story that inspired it.
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If 65 million years of evolution have been building up to this movie, then Darwin was wrong. But there's no intelligent design here either.
Jun 13, 2011
1
This movie is just bad. The acting is a joke, there are no likable characters and the special effects would make the sci-fi channel look good. This movie took a sorta neat idea smeared a whole bunch of stupid ides and bad dialogue onto it and called it a movie. Te title doesn't even make sense. A better title would have been Stupid bad butterfly effect knock off. Don't waste your time!
Oct 4, 2010
1
Not worth the DVD it came in on. You would think the future would have invented some kind of body shielding by the time they invented time travel. Totally unrealistic made apparent by the ability of the animals to outsmart the humans.
Dec 27, 2024
0
A world famous wooden scientist man must join forces with a plant woman to battle an orange unscrupulous rich man to save all mankind. The "time safari" corporation can only take you to a 5 minute window in the past, and you can only murder a dinosaur while there once it gets within chomping range. Oh and a volcano erupts during the excursion. Not a small one either. Like a really bad one that can kill you. So you pay like 10 million bucks a minute for the privilege. The effects are laughable. I havent laughed so hard in a long time. And the lead guy is miscast and clearly doesnt take one second of the thing seriously. This is a movie that will be in my rotation for a long time. Please watch it.
Production Company:
- Franchise Pictures
- Crusader Entertainment
- ApolloMedia Distribution
- Baldwin Entertainment Group
- Coco
- Dante Entertainment
- ETIC Films
- Epsilon Motion Pictures
- Film 111
- Forge
- Jericho Productions Ltd.
- MFF (Sound of Thunder)
- Matrix Film Finance
- Networxx - Film Management
- QI Quality International GmbH & Co. KG
- Scenario Lane Productions
- Signature Pictures
Release Date:Sep 2, 2005
Duration:1 h 50 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:One tiny change and the future is History.
Awards
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 4 Nominations
