Product Details

• Actors: Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack, Armin Rohde, Heike Makatsch
• Directors: Peter Hyams
• Writers: Gregory Poirier, Joshua Oppenheimer, Ray Bradbury, Thomas Dean Donnelly
• Producers: Andrew Stevens, Breck Eisner, Elie Samaha
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: March 28, 2006
• Run Time: 110 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (109 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000CZ0PNK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,789 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "A Sound of Thunder (Widescreen Edition)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

A DARING TIME-TRAVEL THRILLER BASED ON THE CLASSIC RAY BRADBURY STORY.

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22 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun Movie If You Don't Take It Too Seriously, August 1, 2006

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M. Newton (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Sound of Thunder (Widescreen Edition) (DVD)

I have not read the Ray Bradbury short story, so I can't speak as to how the movie compares to it. Taken as an individual work, this film is not bad at all. The key is to not take everything so seriously. There's a lot of action to enjoy and much of it is very creative. The film is basically clean and probably should have been rated PG.

For those of you who like to take your films seriously, I have several warnings.

1) The effects are not great, and in some scenes downright poor. The scenes in which the characters travel along Chicago streets in 2055 are very weak, but the scenes of the various "animals" are pretty decent.

2) The acting is not very good. Ben Kingsly does well as the evil rich guy, but Edward Burns seems to have been given poor lines and direction. The female lead, Catherine McCormick, is completely unlikeable throughout the film as an angry radical.

3) The time travel logic doesn't really make sense. The concept of the butterfly effect is that some minor change in the past can lead to major changes in the future. However, in this film things just don't add up.

Still, I watched this film with no expectation of it being good, and I ended up having a fun time watching it. I just ignored the 3 points I mentioned above. I enjoyed seeing the characters trying to overcome their challenges to defeat the various "animals" they encountered. There was quite a bit of action and suspense that was fun.

If you enjoy sci-fi films, but aren't too much of a purist, you'll probably have fun with this. Don't expect any special features, because all you have are the 2 trailers.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sound of Thunder, July 19, 2011

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M. Ryan "Overlly obsesed with Warriors!!!" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Sound of Thunder (Widescreen Edition) (DVD)

This is one of the worst movie I have ever seen. Its special effects are poor and it is hard to understand what is happening. A lot of the film is totally dark and it is almost impossible to know what is going on. And the dinosaurs were terrible this is a real picture movie, and the use creatures look totally unrealistic and creatures that never existed. And its special effects would have been outdated 10 years ago. I hated this movie.

2.0 out of 5 stars Keep your powder dry, October 30, 2011

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bernie "xyzzy" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Sound of Thunder (Widescreen Edition) (DVD)

Life is a delicate balance between order and disorder. Once small disturbance... One minor infraction of nature's law is all it takes.

This movie is based on a short story by Ray Bradbury.

Chicago 2054. We have discovered a way to do time travel. Even though we use it for recreational purposes there may be a deeper impact.

The application of the story may be misleading as we see from trailers somebody steps on a butterfly however this was not really the problem but the effect. You should be aware of the saying "keep your powder dry." In this case a beautiful woman caused negligence which caused a short which caused the butterfly effect. Moral of the story is don't let a beautiful woman distract you or it may be the end of the world.

Just a side note, it looks like they tried to include every disaster movie you've ever seen and big bug movie (okay little bug), volcanoes, monkeys taking over the world, flora gigantices, and many more unspeakable disasters. Oh and don't forget the evil, uncaring, unthinking, unscrupulous, and many more un's of the government. And don't forget Ben Kingsley as the corporate head who has more un's than the government.

Coming back to the actual movie presentation, the graphics are appallingly hokey. They spend a lot of time on a treadmill in front of a blue screen and don't have any qualms about letting you know that they are more interested in the story than the visuals. Maybe we should be too; yet it is very distracting to see how disjointed the people scenes are from the graphic scenes. This has all the feel of a hallmark movie without the romance.

I'm sure that they're just trying to deliver one simple message. "Don't mess with mother nature"