A Sound of Thunder

2005 Sci Fi

A seemingly insignificant act may cause the fabric of history to unravel in this sci-fi adventure. Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley) owns and operates a successful firm known as Time Safari. Thanks to time travel technology developed by Hatton's employee Sonia Rand (Catherine McCormack), Time Safari allows big game hunters to journey back to prehistoric days and shoot living, breathing dinosaurs. Rand picks out the dinosaur in question, who is soon to die, and creates a floating walkway for the hunters, so the impact of their presence will not be felt by the land around them. But on one expedition, things go horribly wrong when a nervous hunter steps off the walkway and crushes a butterfly, a tiny act that proves to have massive consequences over the course of several million years. As the earth's climate and animal life begin to mutate due to this shift in natural history, Time Safari's leading hunting guide, Travis Ryer (Edward Burns), works beside Rand in a desperate attempt to halt the "ripples of time" before modern civilization completely collapses. A Sound of Thunder was based on a classic short story by pioneering science fiction author Ray Bradbury. more..

Director: Peter Hyams

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

Reviews

  • An old formula made fresh.

    Mick LaSalle - The San Francisco Chronicle

    29 November 2012

  • A Sound of Thunder may not be a success, but it loves its audience and wants us to have a great time.

    Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times

    29 November 2012

  • The cliché-laden dialogue, schlocky special effects and predictable plot are derivative; the movie is overwrought and lacks suspense.

    Claudia Puig - USA Today

    29 November 2012

  • This picture achieves a level of badness that is its own form of sublimity. You almost - please note that I said almost - have to see it to believe it.

    Dana Stevens - The New York Times

    29 November 2012

  • 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.

    Kevin Thomas - Los Angeles Times

    29 November 2012

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