Director Peter Hyams
Staring Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack
Rated M
Score 2/6

When a scientist sent back to the prehistoric era strays off the path he causes a chain of events that alters history in disastrous ways.

For those of you keeping track of the score at home I actually read the short story that this movie was based on before I watched the movie. I know, shocking right? I’ll give everybody a chance to pick their jaws up off the ground before I continue on with the review.

Well? Ok now on with the review.

I suppose the only the excuse that I can probably come up with that the creature effects for A Sound of Thunder where so underwhelming was the fact that Franchise pictures went bankrupt during the film’s post production leaving the remaining filmmakers $30 million out of the original $80 million. From what little I have read of other people’s reviews that I have read one of their main complaints about the movie was Sir Ben Kingsley’s hair, I would have to agree with them, the hairdo he was given was kind of disturbing.
There really wasn’t any stunning performances in this movie, I got the overall impression that almost everybody was phoning in their performances and yes I know I kind of was expecting a lot considering but that was because Sir Ben Kingsley and Ed Burns where cast and both of them are capable giving better performances then they did.
The single most interesting thing about the movie was the use butterfly effect and the idea of how a small change in the past would end up having drastic effects on human evolution. Though that being said I do have to question the use of the ‘time waves’ granted they were used for dramatic effect but the actual effect used came off as being a little chintzy.