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Overview

User Rating:
4.1/10   9,020 votes
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Director:

Peter Hyams

Writers (WGA):

Ray Bradbury (short story)
Thomas Dean Donnelly (screen story) ...
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Release Date:

2 September 2005 (USA) more

Tagline:

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Plot:

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. | full synopsis

NewsDesk:
(4 articles)

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User Comments:

Best bad movie of the year! more (272 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

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)
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Additional Details

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence, partial nudity and language.

Runtime:

USA:110 min

Language:

English | Mandarin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Netherlands:12 | Canada:14A (British Columbia/Manitoba) | Canada:PG (Alberta/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Philippines:PG-13 | Australia:M | Czech Republic:15 | Malaysia:U | Finland:K-15 | Iceland:12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #40964) | Argentina:16 | Germany:12 | South Korea:12 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Czech Republic more


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

One major reason for the film's long delay is that the original production company went bankrupt during post-production, and there simply wasn't money to finish the film. more

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Although the Allosaurus can clearly see the hunters, when Travis accidentally travels to the desert the Native Americans and their horses have no discernible reaction to either his presence or the presence of the temporal path before them. more

Quotes:

Ted Eckles: It's awfully expensive...
Christian Middleton: What's the point of being rich if you don't buy things other people can't afford?
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Movie Connections:

Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#35.8)" (2006) more


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217 out of 256 people found the following comment useful.
Best bad movie of the year!, 3 September 2005
7/10
Author: mooshki from Minnesota

I live for movies like this.

Saw it in a theater with about 12 other people. 3 people left about 20 minutes in. I'm not sure if they left because the movie was so bad or because they couldn't hear the dialogue over the laughter of the rest of us.

Mediocre special effects don't excite me. Abysmally bad special effects are wonderful. I disagree with the previous commenter -- I don't think the actors were walking on a treadmill in front of the green screen, I think they were just standing in place and shifting their weight from one foot to the other.

Sir Ben Kingsley is clearly aware of the "quality" of this film and embraces the ridiculousness, having a great time reading his absurd lines.

The plot, the dialogue, the special effects, the creatures, the actor's accents -- each piece of this movie is worse than the last. There were at least three scenes that made me laugh so hard I cried.

I love dumpster-diving through bad movies in search of treasure. The recent crop of bad movies have been just plain boring. This one is the diamond that makes it all worthwhile.

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