A Sound of Thunder

Even before A Sound of Thunder was released, bloggers were already warning readers to avoid it. One of them, Rebecca Murray, unhesitatingly called it the worst movie of the year, then wrote: Words can not adequately describe just how rotten A Sound of Thunder truly is. My husband kept asking if we could leave during the screening but I said no. ... After we left the screening he let me know the movie was so bad it was actually making him physically ill. The major newspaper critics seem to agree. A. O. Scott in the New York Times writes. This picture achieves a level of badness that is its own form of sublimity. You almost -- please note that I said almost -- have to see it to believe it. Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe begins his review by remarking, Regardless of where one stands on the debate over human origins, both sides should be able to agree that the new evolution movie, A Sound of Thunder, is a work of unintelligent design. Philip Wuntch in the Dallas Morning News says that the sound you hear in the movie is not thunder at all, but one big yawn. Lawrence Toppman in The Charlotte Observer figures that the movie is probably intended as a $40-million tax write-off. And Michael Esposito in the Chicago Tribune dismisses it as just awful.

This was a great movie, I recommend it highly.