A Sound Of Thunder

Starring: Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack, et al.

Product Description

In a future where people travel through time for recreational purposes, a popular sport is going back to prehistoric times to hunt prehistoric wildlife. These prehistoric safaris have only one rule, to kill only those animals that are meant to die. A careless tourist accidentally kills a prehistoric butterfly and it sends off a wave of cataclysmic time changes that result in the extinction of man from the planet. Now, a small group must find the deceased butterfly and return him to an earlier time-and life, hopefully saving mankind as a result.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 085393145927
• Release Date: March 2006
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: WarnerBrothers
• Director: Peter Hyams
• Starring: Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack, Jemima Rooper, Corey Johnson
• Runtime: 1 hour, 43 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Multiple Formats; AC-3; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; NTSC; Subtitled; Widescreen
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Keep your powder dry.

Life is a delicate balance between order and disorder. Once a small disturbance… One minor infraction of nature’s law is all it takes. This movie is based on a short story by Ray Bradbury. Chicago 2054. We have discovered a way to do time travel (it's just a step to the left). Even though we use it for recreational purposes, there may be a deeper impact. The application of the story may be misleading, as we see from trailers, somebody steps on a butterfly; however, this was not the problem, but the effect. You should be aware of the saying "keep your powder dry." In this case, a beautiful woman caused negligence, which caused a short, which caused the butterfly effect. The moral of the story is "don't let a beautiful woman distract you, or it may be the end of the world." Just a side note, it looks like they tried to include every disaster movie you have ever seen and big bug movie (okay, little bug), volcanoes, monkeys taking over the world, flora gigantic, and many more unspeakable disasters. Oh, and do not forget the evil, uncaring, unthinking, unscrupulous, and many more "un’s" of the government. And do not forget Ben Kingsley as the corporate head who has more "un’s" than the government. Coming back to the actual movie presentation, the graphics are appallingly hokey. They spend a lot of time on a treadmill in front of a blue screen and do not have any qualms about letting you know that they are more interested in the story than the visuals. Maybe we should be, too, yet it is very distracting to see how disjointed the people scenes are from the graphic scenes. This has all the feel of a Hallmark movie without romance. I am sure that they are just trying to deliver one simple message. "Don't mess with Mother Nature”!