The spirit of Bert I. Gordon lives on. I expected to giant grasshoppers climbing the bad CGI of the Wrigley building. If Ray Bradbury had seen this he would have burned the book in Fahrenheit 451. Patrick Stewart, Buckingham palace called, they want their Sir back.

The story has promise the acing is ok but cannot get over the script. The low budget special effects are on par with a 1960’s low budget sci-fi movie.

I really do feel for Peter Hyams when it comes to the absolute nightmare of a production he had on A Sound of Thunder, a massively slashed budget, heavy flooding destroying sets and being forced to shoot everything on a greenscreen, ultimately stifling his creativity. What seemed like a good idea on paper goes woefully undeveloped and poorly realised. The film doesn't exactly rewrite genre history; a catastrophe of bad acting, ludicrous science and horrifically shoddy special effects that can't even follow its own internal logic from one scene to the next. Hyams' usual excellent direction feels massively paired down. Still, occasional flashes of his usual quality almost break through the ugly CG overkill. Nick Glennie-Smith's score is far from his best work and just comes across as bland. While there's a little bit of cheese that comes with the film's B-movie-style premise and Ben Kingsley's gloriously slimy corporate meanie, A Sound of Thunder ultimately doesn't land in the way it wants to, a green-screen mess without much rumble. You'll hear something, but it's not the sound of thunder. It's the sound of a snoring.

So bad it’s good science fiction film with the worst cgi ever.

This movie is DEFINITELY 5 STARS, it's from 2005 and with a very low budget. I saw the movie first and then rode the short story of the author, definitely the movie is way much better than the story (the story only has 12 pages). The development of the story is very good, of course there are some gaps that don't make sense because time travel is very complicated, it leaves you thinking many things. I was fascinated about the time waves, which I insist, create gaps that don't make much sense but, what difference does it make? It's SCIENCE FICTION. I think they have rated the film poorly but honestly IT IS VERY WORTH IT.

Esta adaptación del cuento corto de Ray Bradbury nos presenta una historia sobre como el más minúsculo cambio puede desatar algo grande. Siguiendo la teoría del efecto mariposa, es una película sobre viajes en el tiempo y como una pequeña acción puede alterar el futuro. No es nada del otro mundo y la película es otra adicción más a la larga lista de películas de ciencia ficción. El director Peter Hyams era conocido por haber dirigido algunas películas interesantes y esta película es una rareza. Aunque fue hecha en 2005, parece que el estudio a cargo no tenía acceso a suficiente tecnología digital. Los efectos digitales son notables y es fácil notar que ciertos escenarios y criaturas están hechos en CGI. La película cae en sentirse como una película para televisión en vez de ser una película hecha por un gran estudio. Pero a pesar de ello, A Sound Of Thunder es una película curiosa para que cualquier amante de la ciencia ficción o de las obras de Bradbury pueda disfrutar. Es otra película más de esas que son para pasar un rato entretenido. Mi calificación para esta película es un 8/10.

Interesting story. But very Low cost production.

If you want to watch a movie based on an actual decent short story of the same name, choose another source material to watch a movie based off of it. The movie barely follows the book's plot and what it does follow, it only fills roughly the first 20-30 minutes. The rest of the film is just a Jurassic park knockoff with some weird time travel shenanigans happening in between and a main character (who's role in the story is drastically changed compared to the original source) who is just another "overly smart tough guy" who barely has personality otherwise. A fever dream of a film and something fun to watch if high off ketamine or completely drunk. All in all, the only thing that is good in the movie are some of the acting, and the first 20 minutes. Otherwise, watch Project Almanac instead.

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A good sci-fi movie but with some flaws -- This was a decent sci-fi movie, and I've seen quite a few time travel shows. (Small spoiler here) You have time tourists who are warned that the slightest interruption in the past can cause a cascade of disastrous repercussions in the future. Here, the changes in the evolution of nature don't come immediately but instead through a series of time waves. The acting and special effects were good too. This is certainly better than the effect in Ray Bradbury's original story "A Sound of Thunder", where stepping on a butterfly 65 million years ago only caused a change in the outcome of a Presidential election. Now that's too much of a stretch. My main problem with the movie, as a scientist, is that the movie completely overlooks the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. Any interference with the evolutionary time line the travelers made during the age of the dinosaurs would have been greatly impacted by their mass extinction around 65 million years ago. However, no mention is made in the movie of the effect the mass extinction could have had on ripple effect caused by the killing of the butterfly.

Good concept which wasn't carried forth in any way. Fun to watch if u r bored.

This movie is so horrendous it makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a corroded fork. The movie A Sound of Thunder has special effects that look like child's play compared to any other sci-fi movie. This move puts the story to shame. A Sound of Thunder was released in 2005 and was directed by Peter Hyams. The actors of this dreadful film are Catherine McCormack as Dr.Rand, Edward Burns as Travis Ryer, Wilfried Hochholdinger as Dr. Lucas, and David Oyelowo as Marcus Payne.David Oyelowo was also in the movies Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes , Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, and Gringo (2018) and more a lot more movies. A Sound of Thunder has a good concept but it was how they made it. A Sound of Thunder is about a company that takes people into the past via time travel and one of the time jumps something goes wrong and they don't notice until a while after they get back from the trip into the past. Travis tries to find a way to fix it. A Sound of Thunder's best moment and the only good one is when Jenny is taken by a serpent and the only reason it is good is due to the fact that the serpent looks like gyarados. The special effects are all so cheesy it hurts to look at. The only way to fix this move is to scrap it and start over again. I would not recommend A Sound of Thunder to any one even if they read the story no one shoud have to watch this. I wouldn't even wish this upon the person i hate the most in the world.

Many people say "Read the book before you watch the movie" well if it was in regards to this story and movie i would tell you "Read the story and burn every copy of the movie". The fact that the movie almost never even made it to the big screen should throw up a few red flags to anyone actually looking for good coherent movie to watch.But if you can stomach two dimensional characters and almost every cliche inside of a dinosaur adventure movie you can think of be my guest. "A Sound of Thunder" the movie directed by Peter Hyams. With a budget of 80 million dollars beautifully shown by the horrendous special effects. Released in 2005. Main actors including Edward Burns,Catherine McCormack,and Ben kingsley who must have lost a bet and this was the consequence. Many people think this is a "bad movie thats fun to watch" and i agree its a bad movie but "fun to watch' is extremely debatable. My brain was going 100 miles per hour trying to figure out what was actually happening. Almost nothing is explained properly and i honestly don't even think the writers really knew what they were doing as when you ask Dr.Rand what shes talking about she just uses big words to rush past the topic and everything goes over your head. Another thing is multiple weak story lines. I think in an attempt to make the movie more interesting they really just made it worse. Its like they tried to shove to many big ideas into one movie. They have so many cliches in this movie to like the whole corrupt business, stolen idea,and don't forget your classic genius ex-marine whos really just in it for the research. If they were trying to make it less like the book they did exactly that in the most terrible way. If i was Bradburry i would've taken back the rights and not even let them associate this movie with the book none the less let them name it after the book. Lets start with our main character Travis Ryer.The classic adventure movie main character. Hes the head of the crew and is always there to shoot something or call out a random fact. Hes also just in it so he can research the dinosaurs.Then we have Dr.Rand who really thought of the whole "jenny" thing who is like Siri but better? Were introduced to this lovely character when shes screaming like a mad man in one of the first scenes because Hattons going to ruin the world and stole her idea blah blah blah etc. Shes the one who really is like the mastermind behind everything. Hatton is the corrupt business owner who runs the whole time safari thing. In the rest of the crew we have a doctor, a mechanic person and a camera woman.Id take the time to go over them but you wont have to worry about them. Without focusing on the after thought storylines the story comes down to this. Two men take a safari with the crew back to the dinosaur ages and step on a butterfly therefore changing the future. The rest of the movie is the crew trying to fix that immeasurable mistake with time traveling. I think one of the only things that this movie got right was the idea that wildlife and nature would be thriving without the current evolution of humans. With every time wave we see nature getting more unpredictable and vicious but whos to argue thats wrong? I mean were some of the animals and weird plant killers vines a little out there yeah of course but the idea behind it isn't really that hard to fathom. I also appreciate how the writers tried coming up with an evolution for humans but i think it was a total hit and miss. I mean when you think of evolution you think of that one weird photo with the chimpanzees slowly turning into a human but then we magically turn into fish people? Im no scientist but that doesn't add up. I honestly think the outcome would have been better if Travis had failed to time travel correctly and save the current evolution of humanity. I mean without all of the people going insane and everyone trying to shoot anything that moved that world would have been doing magnificently without the pesky little humans. Wether your reading this review after you watch the movie to understand that your eyes were not lying to you and the movie truly was that bad or to see if you should watch the movie ill leave you with a little piece of advice. Grab some tylenol for the incoming headache that is "A Sound of Thunder" the movie.

A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury is an amazingly well written short story. Yet the film…. It's like the Jar Jar Binks of movie history. Horribly, Stupidly, Annoyingly...Funny? With the right sense of humor and standards of course. The short story is about a company for wealthy people to go back in time and hunt a dinosaur that was already meant to die minutes after so it would not mess up the timeline. The short story holds suspense through the entire thing. It even ends in suspense. There is no real relief. In the film, they stretched out the story and added in some hilariously unreasonable and unneeded details. This film is hilarious..ly bad. But, if not taken too seriously, this film is amazing. To take a short story and stretch it into a 2 hour film, it was very well done especially with a limited budget. The green screen and graphics were pretty bad, but what do you expect? This film sat on the shelf for far too long. It was very enjoyable and had a very cool story line. To the realistic issues (animals like lions going extinct and the serious issues in messing with time), to the obvious plot holes and fictional creatures. There is some cheesy comedy that you can't help but laugh at. If you walk into this film expecting graphics that would actually be available in 2055, you will not take any pleasure in watching this film. It gets to the point where there are SO many plot holes, unreasonable creatures, venomous vine thorns, and time waves that wreak havoc on the entire city, that you just have to sit back and laugh and the epic horribleness. I would give this movie 3 1/2 stars for the unreasonable, yet hilarious events. I would suggest this movie to a friend if they were having a bad day or if I just wanted to mess with them. Definitely not a person who takes everything, especially films, seriously. There are definitely worse movies out there. I'll cut this one some slack.

The movie, A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury is a terrible movie. From the editing to the dialogue, it was a pitiful attempt and sorry excuse for a movie. In this review you will find out why it is a terrible movie. The movie is, A Sound of Thunder is directed by Peter Hyams and came out in 2005. The studio, Franchise Pictures Crusader Entertainment Baldwin Entertainment Group Etic Films Forge QI Quality International. The main characters Travis Ryer (Edward Burns), Sonia Rand (Catherine McCormack), Jenny Krase (Jemima Rooper), Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley), and Dr Lucas (Wilfried Hochholdinger). The movie is about a time travel machine being used for a hunting safari, and how it can affect the future drastically. The basic plot of the movie is that Charles Hatton is a money greedy man and tricked Travis Ryer into a contract so that he must bring people on these time travel hunting parties. Sonia Rand tells them that if they continue they will cause discourse in time. Well eventually they do end up messing up and they have to try to go back in time to intercept the hunting party. A big moment in this movie that really threw me off and kind of ruined the movie for me is the bad logic behind the movie. They always go back in time to the same spot to hunt the same dino, but never meet the other hunting parties. But at the end of the movie he can stumble into their hunting party and save the day. It makes zero sense and it was kind of frustrating to watch. If the movie was consistent it would have been a lot better, just tying up those loose ends with a little dialogue would improve the movie quality drastically. If they would have taken out that excruciatingly terrible scene of the sewer monster (Which I think was a Pokémon?) and that horrible CPR attempt, they could have had a 10 minute segment near the beginning of the movie where they are explaining the time travel to the buyers and tie up all the loose ends. The movie was terrible and it had a lot of wasted potential. I do not recommend this movie to anyone unless they want to see a fine example of a waste of $80,000,000. I may sound harsh here but I think a 14 year old with 80 million dollars and Power Director could make a better movie than this studio did. All of the monsters looked like copy pasted models with bad editing. A lot of great movies came out in 2005 and this was just not one of them. Even if they didn't have the funding for good CGI the dialogue and logic was atrocious. Here is an example, Sonia says that humans would be the last affected by the time waves because we are the last to evolve, which is not true at all. I learned in 9th grade that everything is constantly evolving and the script writers must have missed that day in school. If you decide to watch this movie after this review don't expect anything special. I wonder what Ray Bradbury thought of this horrendous movie. Use the 2 hours of your life to work on something important or watch something else.

The special effect is not up to mark. But the concept was OK considering 2005 technologies. The team could have done better. Because the budget was bigger on 2005.

I love this movie so much it left a lasting impression on me for 15 years. I couldn't remember the name for the longest time but I could always remember the movie plot. Ya it's a bad movie but that's what makes it so magical.

The CGI is defiantly a little dated. The premise is kinda fun, but their is way to many flaws to be a good movie.

It kills a bit of time. I once stepped on a butterfly the ripple effect caused a tsunami which submerged a city called Atlantis. Grasshopper, if a tree crashes in a forest with no one there does it make a sound?

I gave my class an assignment to read "A Sound of Thunder". Unfortunately it seems like I ended up with reviews of this abomination. I kept wondering how people were trying to fix something that was irreversible, yet some numbnut thought it would be smart to take the meaning of the stories title away. A sound of thunder, there is no way to undo what happened.