A Sound of Thunder (2005)
Directed by Peter Hyams
When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.
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What happens and why involves some low-grade special effects and a time-traveling conundrum that's been in circulation at least since Ray Bradbury's 1952 story "A Sound of Thunder," in which a man steps on a butterfly in the past and changes the future.
The Butterfly Effect owes a great debt, then, to Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder," Brian Aldiss' "Poor Little Warrior," William Goldman's Control, and Clive Barker's "The Inhuman Condition"; that it manages to honour to some degree each one of its sources (if only with the precision lavished on the telling of its dank tale) identifies the picture as a most difficult beast to embrace--and just as difficult to dislike.
…but they should really be nodding in the direction of Ray Bradbury and his short story "A Sound of Thunder."
Actually, the movie has little to do with chaos theory; a closer allusion is to the Ray Bradbury story “A Sound of Thunder.”
McCormack ( Spy Game ) talks so fast it made me think she was an auctioneer -- and I didnt buy anything she was selling.
It's tempting with something like A Sound of Thunder to play the iconoclast and laud it for its wacky "Land of the Lost" retrograde special effects, its toxic pustule of a screenplay (when you bring in the writers of Sahara (Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer) to fix a script by Gregory Poirier, the guy who wrote Tomcats, you know you're in deep), and its chutzpah in hiring Peter Hyams, possibly the worst all-around director still getting moderate budgets in the United States.
The writing is handled by Thomas Dead Donnelly & Joshua Oppenheimer (who apparently benefitted from good rewrites on Sahara) and Gregory Poirier (who, aside from the porn, is the auteur behind Tomcats), and is utterly predictable when it isn't nonsensical - you know exactly who is going to get picked off by the gorillasaurs and other beasties because they are the current least useful people in the party.