A Sound of Thunder
I was looking forward to this movie, slightly, since I love Time Travel movies. The way each writer depicts what they think would happen if Time Travel existed. This was obviously one of those great time travel films….exept for the great part.
I cannot say that I hated this film completely, and I can’t say that I disliked or liked it. I have mixed feelings.
“A Sound of Thunder” is about a game hunter (Burns) who goes on a time-traveling safari owned and operated by Kingsley’s character to hunt dinosaurs in the prehistoric era. When he kills a butterfly, he unknowingly sets off a chain reaction that will erase humanity from existence. A team of experts must return back in time and replace the butterfly. This of course is a dangerous task, since every few hours what is called a “time wave” accours, and sends the evolution system crashing bit by bit. They must achieve this before the last time wave when they will be turned back to primates.
Of course, all this rates to an interesting story, but the only thing that really p***ed me off about this film, is that they are trying to make a time travel film, and yet have such crappy sepcial effects. I mean, really, you could SEE every second of this movie was shot on blue screen. It actually hurts your eyes at times. A scene which is surprisingly horrible in that sector is the scene where two characters are walking down the street, talking, with futuristic cars behind then. And it actually does hurt your eyes, because the amount of fakeness is so overwhelming, that you get a head ache from trying to make sense of it all.
So, good story, horrible special effects, good acting….to an extent. Which earns this movie 5/10.
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