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
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: March 28, 2006
• Run Time: 110 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (96 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000CZ0PNK
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #9,968 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Suspense Thriller based on the famous short story by master of fiction Ray Bradbury. In the year 2055, a technology has been invented that enables people to go back in time to hunt dinosaurs. When one such expedition to the Prehistoric past unwittingly makes a fatal mistake it dramatically impacts the course of evolution, setting off waves of destruction that ripple toward the modern world and unleashing an army of fearsome creatures that never should have existed. Two scientists race against time to fix the catastrophic error while their world collapses around them and every minute brings the human race closer to extinction.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 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

By	M. Newton (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Failure of logic, December 28, 2006

By	Marc S. Whitney "eichhoernchen" (Mountain View, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The premise (as in the Bradbury story)is straight forward and leads to unforeseen consequence. In this film, however, the consequences do not follow logically or plausibly. Just one example is are the primate-saurian chimeras as a result this particular time paradox is unconvincing given that primates and dinosaur/bird ancestors were already geneticly and evolutionarily separate lines at the time of the paradox. Gradual rather than instantaneous alterations to the future are equally dubious.

While its OK for a film to have some dodgy logic in order to make up a good story -- in this instance it distracts and takes away from the film. Surely the budget for this film had room to employee a writer with better story telling and SF genre skills.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Best way to view this film is with friends and a lot of beer, June 4, 2006

By	R. Kyle (USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Turn it into your own personal "MST3K" event and poke fun all you want. There's plenty to poke fun at: acting, effects, dialogue, etc. It's a great example of current B-movie science fiction. Future generations will look back on this one and have a great laugh.