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.
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10/11/06
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A Sound of Thunder (2005)
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Reviews Counted: 90
Fresh: 7
Rotten:83
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.
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 year 2055, Charles Hatton's (Ben Kingsley)... [More]
Starring: Edward Burns, Catherine McCormack, Ben Kingsley, Jemima Rooper
Director: Peter Hyams
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Reviews for A Sound of Thunder
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.
05/26/06
There's plenty of room to poke holes in the premise, but folks willing to suspend disbelief can still have a good time.
04/10/06
About the best that can be said for it is that it might be appreciated ages hence as purest camp. Frankly, I'm not willing to wait around long enough to find out.
03/27/06
As a time-travel story, A Sound of Thunder doesn't exactly rewrite genre history; rather, it's an authentic blast from the past, an unpretentious B-movie.
02/11/06
A interessantíssima premissa é desperdiçada pelo roteiro capenga, as atuações sem vida, os efeitos visuais constrangedores e pela direção surpreendentemente amadora de Hyams.
02/05/06
This film will be a real disappointment for its lack of logic and even the misunderstanding of the original story.
11/12/05
Ed Burns, Catherine McCormack and Ben Kingsley aren't aiming for Oscars, or even accolades, with their performances, but their choices make this over-budgeted B-movie fun to watch.
10/06/05
Lobotomized from a Ray Bradbury short story, A Sound of Thunder stars Edward Burns as a scientist (insert raucous laughter here)...
09/29/05
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09/26/05
It’s somehow refreshing to know that the spirit, if not the flesh, of Edward D. Wood Jr. lives on.
09/24/05
Bradbury-inspired time-travel sci-fi flick is bad, boring and bland -- in every possible way.
09/15/05
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.
09/09/05
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