A SOUND OF THUNDER
The changes come in waves. They start small, affecting the atmosphere and lower life forms first, then
move rapidly up the food chain with each subsequent pass. Within 24 hours dramatic transformations
appear throughout the city, spurring residents from curiosity to growing alarm and finally panic.
Thousands of fish beach themselves on the Lake Michigan shore. Plant life grows to monstrous
proportions as if reclaiming some ancient tropical territory, bursting through the pavement with great
sinuous roots, overturning cars in the street and engulfing entire buildings from inside and out. Then
come the insects, fast-moving voracious organisms resembling giant roaches and locusts, streaming
over everything in deadly hordes.
Species of predatory creatures suddenly emerge, in reptilian form, with rapier reflexes and surprisingly
intelligent features, darkening the sky and running rampant through an increasingly hostile and terrifying
landscape.
Only two people guess what might be happening: Dr. Travis Ryer (EDWARD BURNS), who leads the Time
Safari expeditions into the past, and Dr. Sonia Rand (CATHERINE McCORMACK), the gifted physicist who
developed the technology that makes these journeys possible. Time Safari CEO Charles Hatton (SIR BEN
KINGSLEY) stole the largely untested technology from Rand and has been using it despite her warnings.
Now, it appears her worst fears are realized.
It used to be our world. Now it’s theirs.
Threatened on all sides and fast running out of time, Ryer and Rand must find a way to go back and
correct whatever catastrophic error was made, to save themselves and the human race from certain
extinction. But as each new wave of change rolls forward from the Prehistoric past, their world continues
to collapse all around them.
©Warner Brothers
move rapidly up the food chain with each subsequent pass. Within 24 hours dramatic transformations
appear throughout the city, spurring residents from curiosity to growing alarm and finally panic.
Thousands of fish beach themselves on the Lake Michigan shore. Plant life grows to monstrous
proportions as if reclaiming some ancient tropical territory, bursting through the pavement with great
sinuous roots, overturning cars in the street and engulfing entire buildings from inside and out. Then
come the insects, fast-moving voracious organisms resembling giant roaches and locusts, streaming
over everything in deadly hordes.
Species of predatory creatures suddenly emerge, in reptilian form, with rapier reflexes and surprisingly
intelligent features, darkening the sky and running rampant through an increasingly hostile and terrifying
landscape.
Only two people guess what might be happening: Dr. Travis Ryer (EDWARD BURNS), who leads the Time
Safari expeditions into the past, and Dr. Sonia Rand (CATHERINE McCORMACK), the gifted physicist who
developed the technology that makes these journeys possible. Time Safari CEO Charles Hatton (SIR BEN
KINGSLEY) stole the largely untested technology from Rand and has been using it despite her warnings.
Now, it appears her worst fears are realized.
It used to be our world. Now it’s theirs.
Threatened on all sides and fast running out of time, Ryer and Rand must find a way to go back and
correct whatever catastrophic error was made, to save themselves and the human race from certain
extinction. But as each new wave of change rolls forward from the Prehistoric past, their world continues
to collapse all around them.
©Warner Brothers
BRENDA
A Sound of Thunder is sure to be a contender for an award this year. Worst Movie of 2005. I
was so looking forward to a Ray Bradbury movie with Ben Kingsley. I am a Ben Kingsley fan
but forgot about another stinker he was in Thunderbirds. I had a hard time getting into this one
because the special effects were so cheesy. Let's just sum this one up and say "WAIT FOR
VIDEO"!
A Sound of Thunder is sure to be a contender for an award this year. Worst Movie of 2005. I
was so looking forward to a Ray Bradbury movie with Ben Kingsley. I am a Ben Kingsley fan
but forgot about another stinker he was in Thunderbirds. I had a hard time getting into this one
because the special effects were so cheesy. Let's just sum this one up and say "WAIT FOR
VIDEO"!
© 2003 St. Louis Movie Review Weekly. All rights reserved, except where indicated.
All movie titles, pictures, etc...are the property of their respective studios.
All movie titles, pictures, etc...are the property of their respective studios.
Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 09/02/05 Home Video 03/28/06 MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence, partial nudity and language Running Time 1 hour 42 minutes Genre Action, Science Fiction Director Peter Hyams Cast Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack Studio Warner Brothers |
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SYNOPSIS
In the near future, time travel will be an exciting, if
unpredictable, reality.
For a price, rich adventurers can stir their dormant killer
instincts by booking safaris back to the Prehistoric age to
hunt real, live dinosaurs.
There are only three essential rules: Don’t change
anything in the past; don’t leave anything behind; and
most important, don’t bring anything back. The slightest
alteration might impact the existing course of evolution in
ways that no one can imagine.
Based on a short story by award-winning author Ray
Bradbury, A Sound of Thunder opens on the year 2055 in
downtown Chicago where a very elite travel agency, Time
Safari Inc., has cornered the lucrative time-traveling
market with an exclusive prehistoric hunting package.
Time Safari Inc. is the hottest ticket in town…. until the
unthinkable happens.
Someone breaks the rules. And evolution runs off its
tracks.
In the near future, time travel will be an exciting, if
unpredictable, reality.
For a price, rich adventurers can stir their dormant killer
instincts by booking safaris back to the Prehistoric age to
hunt real, live dinosaurs.
There are only three essential rules: Don’t change
anything in the past; don’t leave anything behind; and
most important, don’t bring anything back. The slightest
alteration might impact the existing course of evolution in
ways that no one can imagine.
Based on a short story by award-winning author Ray
Bradbury, A Sound of Thunder opens on the year 2055 in
downtown Chicago where a very elite travel agency, Time
Safari Inc., has cornered the lucrative time-traveling
market with an exclusive prehistoric hunting package.
Time Safari Inc. is the hottest ticket in town…. until the
unthinkable happens.
Someone breaks the rules. And evolution runs off its
tracks.