included · Mechanical

A Sound of Thunder

Peter Hyams · 101 minutes

When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.

Action, Science Fiction, Adventure, Thriller

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Temporal events and their consequences run throughout the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

The prehistoric mistake and escalating changes to the present drive the disaster and its attempted repair.

Time Safari’s machine carries hunters into prehistory, where an accidental change alters the present.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan51.3

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance9/10

high confidence

Quality consensus4.5/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 60.50 base × 84.8% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Edward Burns, Catherine McCormack, Ben Kingsley, William Armstrong, Jemima Rooper

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

6 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

Digital