A Sound of Thunder

Hahahahahaha. BEN KINGSLEY. OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR.

The acting and "science" are very fake (I can stomach bad effects). On top of that, they had to get preachy about greed and the power of nature. Interestingly, one of the many clichés turned out to be the best scene: when they killed the black guy first.

Hahahahahaha!

hmmm... my psi said I should rate it at 5, but a movie that combines Time Cop and Evolution can't really be that bad. Two wrongs make a right and all of that. The CGI are terrible and there are some obvious flaws in the storie i.e. time waves and butterfly effect (they actually use a butterfly so that even Timmie can catch up). A friend of mine found the baboons rather stupid, I on the other hand forgive the movie it's stupidity. COME ON THE RAPTORS in this movie are BABOONS! What's not to love!

Yes, it's an awful movie. But it tries a lot harder and it makes slightly more sense than the original short story. There! I've said it!

whether it was bad directing/production or force majeure (production company bankruptcy) that ultimately gave the movie its Ed Wood feel, I don't know, but rewatching the movie, it was actually more coherent than I remember. Sure the CGI is sub "mid90s-computer-game-cutscenes" and Ben Kingsley's wig scares me a hell of a lot more than the evil baboon-reptile-whateverthefucks, but at the heart of the movie there actually lies a decent enough attempt at adapting the original short story.

There's some b-movie charm here but overall it's pretty silly stuff. I get the impression that the production didn't go quite as planned.

I watched this in a theater with ten people and my girlfriend and I were the only ones to make it until the end. The terrible ratings are justified... and yet, this movie is my sugary dessert. I know it's bad for me, but I just don't care. It's a shame that budget issues left it looking so cheesy because the ideas are there. They don't make a lick of sense, but they sure are fun to discuss later. 8/10 people won't be able to stand this film, and the other 2 will love it. :)

Ray Bradbury is spinning in his grave and is going to hurl soon.

Fails in acting, fails in special effects, fails in writing, fails in editing. For what it fails at it makes up for as a roaring good time laughing at how bad this pile is.

I'd put it this way - I tried to give a score of -20, but unfortunately, I can't.

A Sound of Thunder was a really enjoyable short story that you might have read in school. The movie adaptation is awful at every turn. There is absolutely nothing to involve you, nothing to make you think, and it doesn't even contain an enjoyable adventure. It's bland, looks awful, and will only be enjoyed if you can muster up the energy to make fun of it.

Silly but likable bit of sci-fi nonsense plays fast and loose with its time travel logic, and ducks any philosophical considerations in this future in favour of being a squishy monster movie, but once it settles in, it’s decent enough entertainment in the JURASSIC PARK-(very) lite vein – a platinum blonde (?) Kingsley seems to be having fun going all out as a semi-mad scientist (props to his blasé shrug when saying he turned off the matter processor, or whatever that thing was!)

Choppy logic and uneven performances are overshadowed by not-so-special effects that makes the suspension of disbelief a nearly impossible task.

Remember this one. Absurdly bad.

One of the very best sci-fi short-stories very poorly executed.

A low budjet version of a brilliant scifi short story. Shame on you! The short story part was excecuted poorly and the rest of the movie was utterly fairytale and nothing to do with Bradbury's award winning sharpness of pen.

The special effects were sub Sci-Fi channel quality. How the hell did this get a wide release?

I've seen SyFy channel movies better than this. The original story is all about subtle changes in the course of the evolution of the planet. Unfortunately, this film is not capable of subtlety, so instead we get a cliche-ridden, scientifically ridiculous, shitty CGI fest, featuring a love interest running from time waves and baboonosaurs, which owes more to what it ripped off of Jurassic Park than the Bradbury short whose memory it desecrates.

It's hard to believe that a relatively competent studio director like John Hyams--who has made a few duds in his time but nothing like this---directed A Sound of Thunder. It's even harder to believe that Ray Bradbury was somehow involved. The production troubles are legendary--the effects budget was drastically cut in post and the sets were ruined by floods--but no amount of bad luck is responsible for this poorly conceived, badly acted and downright ugly mess. Car-Crash-Cinema.

An interesting sci-fi alternate reality film which takes some imagination to enjoy. Had loads of different concepts which were executed just fine. The only real downfall is the budget limitations on the CGI.

F

very bad graphics.

Oh good God no... Terrible CGI-effects and a very strange "re-interpretation" of Ray Bradbury's classic sci-fi/horror short. Apparently time changes in waves, sort of like the blast from an explosion. Yes. Time needs time to change... uh... time... You know that, when no one said stop already in the development phase of concepts like baboon-dinosaurs and bat-pterodactyls, you won't be in for a particularly clever ride...

Why?

The worst time travel ever.

A horrible bastardization of a great short story. The whole production is so laughably amateurish that it's almost unbelievable.

The "time waves" were ridiculous enough (and apparently invented just to make a short story long enough to make a movie), but the plot's internal inconsistencies bordered on the ludicrous. Bradbury's original story is much better, more concise and significantly more subtle.

"Good idea unsuccessfully realised with Ed Burns doing his best."

A mockery of Ray Bradbury and decency

"What manner of beast might have evolved on Earth had a single butterfly been squashed 65 million years ago? Monkeysaurus!" - Nick Schager

The premise was stupid, their ideas on how evolution worked were idiotic and the concept of time waves, a central theme to the pacing of the film, was just nonsensical.With all that said, it was a mindless action film with some nice effects (and some bad ones).

Outrageously atrocious. Sub-Sci-Fi Channel effects, and the laughably inexpressive Ed Burns. Ben Kingsley dresses like the BeeGees. Fun if inebriated.

Not bad.

A film that starts from the very beginning with killing animals just for the fun of it.. So unoriginal it feels like a bad mix of Jurassic Park and a time travelling B-movie. Don't waste your time, not even to see what a bad film looks like.

bad movie

"Humans were the last to evolve" is a line in this film

Novel concept and interesting premise marred by horribly jarring special effects and unimpressive performances by the majority of the cast. I'm a sucker for time travel and even I couldn't stomach this.

Kind of fun time traveling flick. Sure, the effects are painfully bad at times but the concept is great, and the acting is adequate. The primate dinosaurs make up for it though. Cool.

Not just a turd, but a fake looking turd