Excellent but underrated film

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

This is the type of film which gives the Science fiction genre/time travel sub-genre a bad name. Rich thrill-seekers pay a small fortune for a trip back in time to take part in a kind of Jurassic safari and in the killing of a dinosaur.Dressed like they are going paintballing they pass through a series of what looks like carbon dioxide fire extinguishers through a mysterious portal from the near future to millions of years into the primordial past to take down a very unconvincing plastic-looking dinosaur. What the excellent Ben Kingsley was doing in this movie I have no idea, must have paid well.The rest of the cast were for the most part clichéd, the spurned scientist cheated out of her fame and fortune as co-inventor of the time travel apparatus (clipped English, of course,this is Hollywood after all), the wooden hero safari leader and of course Ben Kingsley's sinister European accented right-hand man.Awful script, complete pseudo-science mixed with "waves of time" nonsense, and the effects were laughable, particularly the seal/human hybrid creature which appeared towards the end of the film and the poorly-animated futuristic vehicles and obvious model overhead monorail.Would not recommend.

What the hell is happening with this movie?!Alright, time travel! I love it. Super poor cg-effects? not so much.Let me break it down for ya real quick! A Sound of Thunder has kind of a decent story, it's almost original, not a too shabby take on time travel. Mixed with some Total Recall, and a little sprinkle of Jurassic Park. Ish.Here is the movies main problem. Horrible special effects. Now, I don't use words like horrible when describing special effect too often. I got thick skin when it comes to CG. But here? Oh my. There's some painful green screen here. The movie is set in the future, so when they are walking in the streets, backgrounds and cars are CG. And not in a good way. It's like TV-movie quality.Also some of the acting is pretty bad. But again the real problem is the CG, and special effects in general, damn. They are badly directed and badly made. It looks really low budget, but according to IMDb it's in the 50 mill range, so they really should be better.I think the director is just too old, and inexperienced with CG, thats my theory. But aside from the very bad CG effects, this is not that bad a movie. Got some good ideas.

Based on the late Ray Bradbury's short story of a time-travel big-game hunting business that has some unfortunate effects on time itself, is adapted poorly here, with only co-star(and former Academy Award winner) Ben Kingsly giving a fine performance, as the head of the company behind the time-travel excursions of "time tourists", who want to hunt and kill dinosaurs(!) but instead quite literally prove the "Butterfly Effect", that is if you change one thing in the past, everything changes. That is certainly demonstrated here! Pity this film is so illogical, both within conventional time-travel theory, but even within itself. How can they keep going back to the same point in time, and not encounter themselves, since the dinosaur kill is a fixed point in time? Yet, the whole premise of the film has them frantically trying to do just that, in order to put things back to normal, and restore their time line! It makes no sense. Substandard F/X as well, since this sat on the shelf unfinished for years after the production company went bankrupt!

As a teenager I remember reading the short story A Sound Of Thunder by Ray Bradbury . It's a science fiction revolving around chaos theory and the butterfly effect where time travel is possible and an industry of hunting dinosaurs tens of millions in the past is a once in a lifetime thrill for the exclusively mega-rich . This leads to time being changed subtly but ultimately disasterously for humanity where a war mongering fascist leader is elected and with him the probability of thermo nuclear war It's one of these short stories that exists due to the twist ending . Try and think of THE TWILIGHT ZONE with a downbeat ending . One problem I had with the internal logic with the story is that even if time travel was possible - and the scientific community are certain that time travel is forever impossible - then would anyone allow it to happen preciselyfor the reasons pointed out in the story ? You know you step on a butterfly and next thing you know humanity ends in a big puff of smoke The film version of A SOUND OF THUNDER pads out the premise of the original short story to feature length and the more it adds the more problematic everything becomes on a logical level . Expeditions to a point in time where a dinosaur is about to die in an exact point in timewill immediately lead you to ask is there actually a market in this . You turn up with the Jurrasic period and shoot a giant reptile which only has seconds to live anyway . Is this worth the astronomical fee you'll be expected to pay ? So apart from the illogical nature of the original short story the film version heaps on more and more implausible aspects of its own But it's not the narrative that has come in on for major criticism on this website , it's the production values . Some quotes state that this movie cost $80 million to make . One wonders if someone either stuck a zero on the end , or if Ben Kingsley is the highest paid movie star in history or if someone simply deposited most of the budget in to a Swiss bank account because the money is nowhere to be seen on screen . People may point out that the dino-baboon hybrids ( Yeah I know these hybrids don't make sense ) or the dino-sharks are totally unconvincing but they're adequate compared to the laughable scenes midway through the film where people walk around a city of the future . Let me elaborate: two characters are supposedly walking along a city but it's obvious that the sequence is achieved by the actors being in front of back projection . It's not even blue-screen it's back projection as you see in films from the first half of the 20th Century and the perspective isn't even in a convincing aspect ratio . What makes all of this even more laughable in that it's obvious that the actors are walking on the spot ! Is this a sophisticated post modernist joke ? If you see any hint of sophistication let me know what scene it appeared in One could perhaps be more forgiving since A SOUND OF THUNDER was supposedly beset by production problems from the outset but even so a film like HEAVENS GATE still contains some memorable imagery and sequences . Watching A SOUND OF THUNDER you're continually scratching your head wondering where the budget went to . If this was a $1 million production by The Asylum or The SyFy Channel then it'd be merely average . Looking on the bright side it's a film seldom seen which will be of great consolation to everyone who worked on this turkey