A Sound of Thunder 2005
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Genre:Action ,Adventure,Horror
Release: 2 September 2005 (USA)
Director: Peter Hyams
Stars:Edward Burns|Ben Kingsley|Catherine McCormack Writer:Ray Bradbury,Thomas Dean Donnelly Songmaker:DTS,Dolby Digital,SDDS IMDB | Views: 1266 |
A Sound of Thunder Complete info
Genre :Action|Adventure|Horror
Title :A Sound of Thunder
Year :2005
Rating :4.2
Duration :101 min
Release :2 September 2005 (USA)
Star:Edward Burns,Ben Kingsley,Catherine McCormack,David Oyelowo,Wilfried Hochholdinger,Edward Burns,August Zirner,Ben Kingsley,Catherine McCormack,Alvin Van Der Kuech
Director :Peter Hyams
Writer:Ray Bradbury | Thomas Dean Donnelly
Country:UK
Language:English
Moviescore:24/100
Movie Location:Filming Locations: Barrandov Studios, Prague, Czech Republic See more ¯
Picture Rating:MPAA
Movie Budget:Budget: $52,000,000 (estimated)
Movie Gross:Gross: $105,052 (Mexico) (6 October 2006)
Movie Company:Franchise Pictures | Franchise Pictures | ApolloMedia Distribution
Movie Sound : DTS,Dolby Digital,SDDS
A Sound of Thunder Tagline : Taglines: Evolve or die. See more ¯
A Sound of Thunder Description
When a scientist sent back to the prehistoric era strays off the path he causes a chain of events that alters history in disastrous ways.
A Sound of Thunder Plot
Plot Keywords: time travel | inventor | death | dinosaur | man wearing boxer shorts | See All (81) ¯
A Sound of Thunder Synopsis
2055, Charles Hatton has made a fortune by founding 'Time safari', which offers rich 'big game hunters' short time travels to kill off dinosaurs just before their natural death. When Travis notices the weather and wildlife are not behaving as usual, he consults Dr. Rand, the contractually invisible inventor of the supercomputer which controls the time travel. They soon face 'time waves', each worsening the effects in 2055 of evolutionary distortions, lower lifeforms first. They attempt to identify and rectify the past alteration, but each attempt gets harder in their distorted present. Written by KGF Vissers
A Sound of Thunder Critics
Yeah sure, the movie its visuals already did looked horrible and not very promising but the premise and the cast looked good, so I still sort of expected to be entertained by this movie. This however unfortunately wasn't the case. The premise is good but the story is filled with improbabilities and is logically flawed. This movie is potential flushed down the toilet. The main plot is interesting and somewhat original. It's good enough to make a good adventurous movie out of would you think. This movie however fails to entertain and I think that that is this movie biggest flaw. Perhaps it takes itself too serious and a little bit more humor certainly wouldn't had done the movie any harm. Instead it now is nothing more than a lame and cheap looking movie, filled with the one unlikely event after the other, that also steals a bit too much from other, more successful movies. Mainely "Jurassic Park" obviously. The characters also don't help to make the movie any more compelling or at least interesting to watch. I still think that Edward Burns did a fairly decent job as the 'heroic' main lead. The rest of the characters however really get muddled in into the movie and they get very little interesting to do. The movie rather relies on its visual, which are extremely poor. Catherine McCormack also plays a very irritating character. Basically all her character does is complain and talk about how right she was and the rest oh so wrong. Her character just isn't a likable one. And the rest of the characters...well I already have forgotten their names, I think that that is saying enough about them. It certainly is true though that Ben Kingsley's performance alone makes this movie worth watching. He is really excellent in his sort of villainous businessman role but from the moment when he disappears out of the movie the movie really goes downhill rapidly. Visually the movie is extremely poor. It has some dreadful looking CGI effects and they couldn't even get the more simple 'blue-screen' effects look convincing in the movie. The sets are also awful and cheap looking, like they can fall over and break down every moment. The movie never gets tense, exciting or adventurous since the story is brought in the least interesting and engaging way possible. It's a very distant movie with distant characters that fails to impress. There are plenty of action sequences but all of them are so ridicules looking and far from believable that they never get tense or good enough. So basically this movie is lacking in everything that is needed to make a genre movie like this one a good and successful one. It's sad to see how low director Peter Hyams has sunk to the last couple of years, after making some good movies in the '70's and '80's. 4/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
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