A Sound of Thunder: Critic Reviews

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Scott Brown Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

0

So perfect in its awfulness, it makes one seriously consider a theory of unintelligent design.
Full Review » 7 years ago
A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

20

This picture achieves a level of badness that is its own form of sublimity.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

38

One wonders why Hollywood is so determined to churn out outlandish tales of manufactured peril when the real world is scary enough.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

13

A work of unintelligent design.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Joshua Land Village Voice (Top Critic)

The movie's most political aspect may be its quaint respect for the basic principles of evolution.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News (Top Critic)

38

On the evolutionary scale, this B-movie misfire hovers pretty close to amoeba status.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

9

The dialogue strives for witty banter, but most laughs are unintentional.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

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.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael Esposito Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

25

One redeeming feature of this picture is that it will make great fodder for those make-fun-of-the-movie TV shows.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

25

A Sound of Thunder is worth noting, if only as a real contender for worst movie of the year.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Joe Leydon Variety (Top Critic)

There is every indication that most of the cast didn't feel Thunder was worth the expenditure of excessive effort.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Kyle Smith New York Post (Top Critic)

0

The Ed Burns time-travel flick A Sound of Thunder takes us back 65 million years, to approximately the last moment when anyone still thought Ed Burns was talented.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

20

Full Review » 3 years ago
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

25

Many video games look more authentic than this.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jason Anderson Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

25

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.
Full Review » 7 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

A Sound of Thunder takes an interesting science fiction concept and relegates it to the secondary role of servicing a limp action/adventure movie.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

A gloriously lead-footed excursion into time travel with all the accoutrements of 1950s science fiction: an absurd plot, cliched characters, corny effects and a race against time to save mankind.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

20

Virtually nothing in A Sound of Thunder is convincing.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Steve Biodrowski Cinefantastique

Based on the Ray Bradbury short story of the same name, this is a colassal disapopintment - unworthy of the memorable source material.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed

38

The special effects are on par with a basic film you'd see about a giant squid on the Sci-Fi Channel, and the story is just as boring.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Peter T. Chattaway Christianity Today

38

The film is full of rumbling sounds that will make your innards tremble (at least in some theaters). But that's about all it has going for it.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Helen OHara Empire Magazine

40

Good idea unsuccessfully realised with Ed Burns doing his best.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

13

A catastrophe of bad acting, ludicrous science and conspicuously cheap special effects that can't even follow its own internal logic from one scene to the next.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Bob Grimm Sacramento News & Review

20

A remarkably bad film.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Forrest Hartman Reno Gazette-Journal

75

There's plenty of room to poke holes in the premise, but folks willing to suspend disbelief can still have a good time.
Full Review » 6 years ago