| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
D+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"The budget for this picture is allegedly tens of millions of dollars, but the film looks like it was paid for with petty cash." more... |
D- |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"A Sound of Thunder may not be a success, but it loves its audience and wants us to have a great time." more... |
C+ |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Esposito |
"In any era, the time-travel adventure movie A Sound of Thunder is just awful." more... |
D |
| E! Online |
"Our advice: Wait until it's on the Sci Fi Channel, and then watch something else." more... |
F |
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown |
"...perfect in its awfulness..." more... |
F |
filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti |
"To describe what's wrong with this perfectly serviceable pulp scenario requires only one word: everything." more... |
D+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"Producers might want to borrow the movie's time machine to go back and put the project into turnaround." more... |
F |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
"...the effects are frequently projected on screens behind the actors, the way they were in drive-in movies from 1956." more... |
F |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"You almost - please note that I said almost - have to see it to believe it." more... |
D |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"It begins and ends strongly, but the narrative gives way to video game plotting in the middle." more... |
C |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"...director Peter Hyams never stops hurtling the movie forward, in ways that are usually fantastic, believable and genuinely exciting." more... |
B |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...I must confess that I enjoyed this misfire more than most of the summer '05 movies..." more... |
B- |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"The cliché-laden dialogue, schlocky special effects and predictable plot are derivative; the movie is overwrought and lacks suspense." more... |
C- |
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