Charles Hatton owns and operates a successful firm known as Time Safari. Thanks to time travel technology developed by Hatton's employee Sonia Rand, Time Safari allows big game hunters to journey back to prehistoric days and shoot living, breathing dinosaurs. Rand picks out the dinosaur in question, who is soon to die, and creates a floating walkway for the hunters, so the impact of their presence will not be felt by the land around them. But on one expedition, things go horribly wrong when a nervous hunter steps off the walkway and crushes a butterfly, a tiny act that proves to have massive consequences over the course of several million years. As the earth's climate and animal life begin to mutate due to this shift in natural history, Time Safari's leading hunting guide, Travis Ryer, works beside Rand in a desperate attempt to halt the "ripples of time" before modern civilization completely collapses.
This is basically a poor man's version of "Jurassic Park" without all the brilliant special effects, beautiful scenery and great musical soundtrack. It's a little different in that the dinosaurs evolve into new species (like the man eating baboons), but not significantly different to be totally original. Although, this film was based on a short story by Ray Bradbury (author of Fahrenheit 451) which intrigued me, but didn't boost my rating. It wasn't a horrible movie, just not up to par with it's closest competitor in the "don't mess with dinosaur DNA" space. I thinks it's safe to say that there won't be a sequel to this film or any Academy Awards.
Rating: 2 of 5 stars
Would I watch it again: No
Starring: Edward Burns, Catherine McCormack, Ben Kingsley
I typically watch movies on Monday, Wednesday and Friday while riding the ACE Train from Tracy to Santa Clara. The opinions expressed are those of me, myself and I.
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