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A Sound of Thunder

2005

Peter Hyams

Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack, Jemima Rooper ...

3.7

7,539

Sci-Fi. Action. Adventure Chicago, year 2054. A technology has been invented that enables people to travel back in time to hunt dinosaurs. One such expedition to the Prehistoric past unwittingly makes a fatal mistake it dramatically impacts the course of evolution.

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A Sound of Thunder may not be a success, but it loves its audience and wants us to have a great time (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"'Sound of Thunder' doesn't transcend its genre. It doesn't morph into something profound. But within the limits of his ambition, it gets almost everything right."
		Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News	"Burns doesn't even bother to disguise his New York accent, any more than he does his boredom"
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"The cliché-laden dialogue, schlocky special effects and predictable plot are derivative; the movie is overwrought and lacks suspense (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Joe Leydon Variety	"A clunky and cheesy disaster."
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"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."
		Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"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."
		Wesley Morris Boston Globe	"The movie fails to conjure the wonder of the Ray Bradbury short story that inspired it"
		Scott Brown Entertainment Weekly	"So perfect in its awfulness, it makes one seriously consider a theory of unintelligent design"

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