A Sound of Thunder
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 “Today you stood shoulder to shoulder with Columbus discovering America. Armstrong stepping on the moon, Brubaker landing on Mars. You are true pioneers on the very last frontier: Time.”
A Sound of Thunder is a Sci Fi Actioner featuring Edward Burns and the brilliant Sir Ben Kingsley. The year is 2055, Mankind has discovered how to travel through time. This technology could be used for great good or great evil… Charles Hatton (Sir Ben Kingsley) wants to use it to simply get rich. When clients on his ‘time-safari’ step off ‘the path’ and kill something they shouldn’t while in the cretaceous era; this causes a ripple effect that travels forward through time and changes the world for the worst. As the ripples grow ever greater and the human race dwindles on the brink of extinction, Travis Ryer (Edward Burns) and his team must discover what has been changed and prevent something like this from ever happening again. The first thing that should be said about this film is that the basic premise (based upon a short story by Ray Bradbury) is ridiculous. Both Quantum Physics and Common Sense would suggest that if you change something in the past, there would be no ripples… when you got back to the future… you’d simply be f***ed. Once you get over this basic point however, this really isn’t a bad film. Edward Burns’ character Travis Ryer is likable enough – a famous scientist paid to travel back and help rich people shoot dinosaurs. Ryer is only doing this so he can gather vital information that will be used to resurrect extinct animal species destroyed in a plague that killed off all animal life on Earth by the 2030s. Although a famous scientist and geneticist, Ryer is blissfully unaware of the danger that traveling through time causes, unaware that is until he comes across animal rights / time rights / 'the end is nigh' girl Sonia Rand (played by Catherine McCormack) who causes a bit of a ruckus at a company do and who, he discovers, invented the technology that the time machine is based upon. When history starts to unravel and the world as he knows it starts to change dramatically – with a range of mutant half lizard / half mammal creatures and man eating vines taking over the world; Ryer and his team (which includes Jemima Rooper – best known as the lesbian ghost from Brit horror Hex), must travel across the city to discover what the last ‘time tourists’ have changed and then work out a way to put things right. While this film would never win awards for it’s story or it’s acting (with the exception of Sir Ben Kinsley who appears to take delight in playing his character), A Sound of Thunder is a gripping action film that will appeal to any fans of Sci Fi time travel, The Butterfly Effect or Jurassic Park. If you don’t overthink things, A Sound of Thunder is gripping, scary and absorbing and well worth a watch. In this adaptation of the Ray Bradbury short story, a group of time travelers learn that technology isn't all its cracked up to be by accidentally bringing a piece of the past to the present. During regular dinosaur hunts, the crew of Time Safari, Inc. -- led by scientist Travis Ryer (Burns) -- allows clients to gun down an allosaurus just minutes before it would have faced a natural death. Then they hop back into their time machine and all is OK ... until a slight mishap alters history forever. That leaves Ryer and fellow scientist Sonia Rand (McCormack) to desperately try and set things right. There's plenty of room to poke holes in the premise, but folks willing to suspend disbelief can still have a good time. Despite subpar special effects, the movie works as an adventure film as long as it isn't taken too seriously.  Armin Rohde ... John Wallenbeck (as Armin Rhode) Heike Makatsch ... Alicia Wallenbeck Jemima Rooper ... Jenny Krase David Oyelowo ... Payne Wilfried Hochholdinger ... Dr. Lucas Edward Burns ... Travis Ryer August Zirner ... Clay Derris Ben Kingsley ... Charles Hatton (as Sir Ben Kingsley) Catherine McCormack ... Sonia Rand Alvin Van Der Kuech ... Young Technician Andrew Blanchard ... George the Doorman William Armstrong ... Ted Eckles Corey Johnson ... Christian Middleton Nikita Lespinasse ... Newswoman on TV (as Nikita Le Spinasse) Scott Bellefeville ... Onlooker (as Scott Bellefeuille) IMDB Trailer Download Torrent 
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