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A Sound of Thunder

2005

Peter Hyams

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

3.7

7,533

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.

	Author	Review
United States	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)"	NEU
United States	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."	POS
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News	"Burns doesn't even bother to disguise his New York accent, any more than he does his boredom"	NEG
United States	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)"	NEG
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"A clunky and cheesy disaster."	NEG
United States	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."	NEG
United States	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."	NEG
United States	Wesley Morris Boston Globe	"The movie fails to conjure the wonder of the Ray Bradbury short story that inspired it"	NEG
United States	Scott Brown Entertainment Weekly	"So perfect in its awfulness, it makes one seriously consider a theory of unintelligent design"	NEG

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