But the original time machine designer, Dr.
The time-tripping team includes paleontologist Travis Ryer (Edward Burns), who relishes the opportunity of studying dinosaurs first-hand. For the big game hunter with the big wallet, Hatton runs a trip back to prehistoric Illinois, in which the client gets to bring down an Allosaurus. Time travel has become the new frontier, and the pioneers are Time Safaris, led by silver-tongued entrepreneur Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley). The year is 2055 and the place is Chicago. This protracted segment serves no purpose beyond giving the characters something to do for 30 minutes so that the movie doesn't clock in at an unacceptably short 70 minutes. It begins and ends strongly, but the narrative gives way to video game plotting in the middle. The effectiveness of A Sound of Thunder is spotty. This approach isn't unique or inherently bad (it worked, for example, with Blade Runner and I, Robot), but its success relies heavily upon execution and how the screenwriters choose to adapt the source material. A Sound of Thunder takes a thought-provoking science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury and turns it into a noisy, messy Hollywood action/adventure extravaganza.
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