Peter Hyams seems to have good days and bad days, and this is a bad day. This film seems to have started off with a great idea and a fine script for a horror movie, only to sink under the weight of 'splosions, action movie-isms and dreadful excess.
Starts off well, with a convincing cast of researchers, some natural performances and a similar feel to "Serpent and the Rainbow". Any originality or spark is totally crushed by the Cameronesque introduction of **spoiler, maybe** heavily armed marines and a big stompy monster, not to mention the Fort Knox style security arrangements for turning a museum into a nuclear bunker. And the vast stockpiles of petrol and C4 which make the place explode so dramatically at the end.
I hope "A sound of thunder" doesn't suffer the same treatment.
Starts off well, with a convincing cast of researchers, some natural performances and a similar feel to "Serpent and the Rainbow". Any originality or spark is totally crushed by the Cameronesque introduction of **spoiler, maybe** heavily armed marines and a big stompy monster, not to mention the Fort Knox style security arrangements for turning a museum into a nuclear bunker. And the vast stockpiles of petrol and C4 which make the place explode so dramatically at the end.
I hope "A sound of thunder" doesn't suffer the same treatment.