When I first saw the trailer for A Sound Of Thunder… I wasn’t impressed. However, it looked like it may have the potential to be a half decent summer Sci-Fi flick. MAYBE. Looks like my positive outlook on life may have been misplaced.
The reviews are now in for A Sound of Thunder, and they are not pretty… not pretty at all. As a matter of fact, they rate just SLIGHTLY higher than Underclassman. A Sound of Thunder currently sits with a pathetic 7% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Wow. A 5% and 7% in the same week. And Hollywood wonders why boxoffice numbers are down.
Here’s what some of the critics have to say:
“This picture achieves a level of badness that is its own form of sublimity.”
A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES“A Sound of Thunder is worth noting, if only as a real contender for worst movie of the year.”
Bill Muller, ARIZONA REPUBLIC“A catastrophe of bad acting, ludicrous science and conspicuously cheap special effects that can’t even follow its own internal logic from one scene to the next.”
Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
Ouch. Move along people… nothing to see here. Because I’m a sucker for Sci-Fi films I’ll be seeing it this weekend (I guess I’m a glutton for punishment).
How can someone screw up a Ray Bradbury story for crying out loud?