Charles Hatton has made a fortune by founding Time safari, which offers rich 'big game hunters' short time travels to kill dinosaurs just before their natural death. When Travis, a scientist come adventurer, notices the weather and wildlife are not behaving as usual, he consults Dr. Rand, the contractually invisible inventor of the supercomputer which controls the time travel. They soon face 'time waves', each worsening the effects in 2055 of evolutionary distortions, lower lifeforms first. They attempt to identify and rectify the past alteration, but each attempt gets harder in their distorted present.....One that this film has going for it, is the sheer badness of it all, and its obvious that the studio more or less disowned this from the get go, because not many people have heard of it, and you'd be amazed the acting calibre that features in this.The first thing you notice, is just how really awful the special effects are. I know the film is nearly ten years old, but there is absolutely no excuse for a film, pretty major at the time of being green lit, to have such poor special effects.They are so bad, they detract you away from what is going on in the actual narrative. It's as if the studio have released the test screening, because response was so bad, they decided to cut their losses.The script is terrible, McCormack and Burns have a hard time with the script, and Ben Kingsley is credited as Sir in this, so that tells you a lot.It's a shame though, because this film should be more notorious. Here in the UK, it had a really quiet, no advertising DVD release, and has never been screened on TV.A must for all bad movie enthusiasts.

My goodness what a disappointment! Even with a low budget one can make a good scifi or time travel movie if the plot is intelligent and the actors are convincing. None of this is the case with this sad piece of wasted time. The actors apparently are only in it for the money; particularly Ben Kingsley acts so mechanical, bored and not connected to his role that one can feel how much he hated his job(and himself, probably, for having to make a buck by playing in this movie). The CGI is so poor that one wonders if it is due to the lack of money for special fx or because of the incapability of the CGI designers. The plot.... what could be a good idea is completely wasted in the ever growing paltriness of the effects and the ridiculous CGI-generated characters (a dim rip-off of Jurassic parc characters). The time travel issue is merely a pretense for silly chases and bad acting. Apart from few minutes in the beginning, the entire movie displays the lack of money and the un-inspiredness of playwrights and director. I didn't even watch the movie to the end. Summary: Waste of time.

There's a slight difference between a terrible film and a bad film. As surreal as it sounds, I really enjoy watching this film a lot. Just to get things right, this film is crap, but it really has some really great ideas.For example the Baboonosaurus. Great idea, but very questionable. I don't think evolution works in such weird ways, but I take it for the cool idea it is. The design of the so called Ichtyo Sapiens (for the short moment its in) is fun to watch. Also I enjoyed the jungle setting.Just forget about the acting, its that crappy. It's a bad film over and over, it's an enjoyable film.As much as I would like to say, get it and check it out on your own, but this film ... Well it's a Si-Fi film, a bad one with many very enjoyable parts. Not everyone will like it. If you enjoyed movies like EVOLUTION, you will enjoy A SOUND OF THUNDER.

The Late Ray Bradbury was said to have had the most creative mind since H. G . Wells, I would have to agree. From his fertile imagination comes this short story he wrote which was eventually entitle " A Sound of Thunder. " In order to understand what the title means, all one needs to do is watch this film. Bradbury tells the story set well into the future about a scientist named Travis Ryder (Edward Burns) who has completed a Time Travel machine which allows anyone to travel back into the period of the Dinosaurs, with the sole purpose of killing one of those unique creatures. The dangers of this futuristic machine which could have a profound effect on the history of Mankind, have been exhaustively explained by Sonia Rand, inventor of the time machine, (Catherine McCormack), but have largely been ignored. This oversight was due largely by the rich financier of the project, Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley). The drama of this incredible film is due in part to the special effects crew which give excitement and terrifying believability to this frighting movie. The cast is remarkable and give an exceptional presence to this screen Gem. Hats off to Ben Kingsley for a convincing performance. Despite the many criticisms to the making of this movie, it's strongly recommended as a given Classic. Well done! ****