A Sound of Thunder 2005

Judy Chia Hui Hsu, Seattle Times: An exciting, uneven thriller that explores the ripple effect of altering one tiny moment in the distant past. Read more

Michael Esposito, Chicago Tribune: One redeeming feature of this picture is that it will make great fodder for those make-fun-of-the-movie TV shows. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: If movies have personalities, this one has an appealing one, combining scientific inquisitiveness with giddy pleasure in creating tension for viewers. Read more

Tasha Robinson, AV Club: At the risk of making an overly broad and limiting generalization, it's generally wise to make sure an action movie's plot has actually kicked into gear by the time the first hour has elapsed. Read more

Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: A Sound of Thunder is worth noting, if only as a real contender for worst movie of the year. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A work of unintelligent design. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Virtually nothing in A Sound of Thunder is convincing. Read more

Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: Watching A Sound of Thunder could possibly lower your IQ into the single digits. Read more

Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: So perfect in its awfulness, it makes one seriously consider a theory of unintelligent design. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: The dialogue strives for witty banter, but most laughs are unintentional. Read more

F.X. Feeney, L.A. Weekly: The barometer of the film's undoing is Burns's super low-key performance, which starts out as a poker-faced spoof on heroic cool, but takes a misstep more fatal than mere time-travel can undo. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Just another air-conditioned thrill ride through a house of horrors, implying nothing except the rock-bottom bankruptcy of subtle minds in pop culture. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Little questions lead to big ones. Why am I here? When will this stop? Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: On the evolutionary scale, this B-movie misfire hovers pretty close to amoeba status. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: This picture achieves a level of badness that is its own form of sublimity. Read more

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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A Sound of Thunder takes an interesting science fiction concept and relegates it to the secondary role of servicing a limp action/adventure movie. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A Sound of Thunder looks cobbled together from a half-baked screenplay and underdone special effects, but it's made with a certain heedless zeal that makes you smile if you're in tune with it. Read more

Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail: Kingsley proceeds through his scenes on autopilot, and Burns is the kind of actor you cast as the hero when a piece of wood is unavailable. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Many video games look more authentic than this. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: One wonders why Hollywood is so determined to churn out outlandish tales of manufactured peril when the real world is scary enough. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: There is every indication that most of the cast didn't feel Thunder was worth the expenditure of excessive effort. Read more

Joshua Land, Village Voice: The movie's most political aspect may be its quaint respect for the basic principles of evolution. Read more