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Synopsis: 2055, Charles Hatton has made a fortune by founding 'Time safari', which offers rich 'big game hunters' short time travels to kill off dinosaurs just before their natural death. When Travis notices the weather and wildlife are not behaving as usual, he consults Dr. Rand, the contractually invisible inventor of the supercomputer which controls the time travel. They soon face 'time waves', each worsening the effects in 2055 of evolutionary distortions, lower lifeforms first. They attempt to identify and rectify the past alteration, but each attempt gets harder in their distorted present.
Director(s): Peter Hyams
Production: Warner Bros.
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.2
Metacritic:
24
Rotten Tomatoes:
6%
PG-13
Year:
2005
101 min
$1,717,608
Website
733 Views


5 minutes before

a volcano erupts and fries him

in hot lava.

I wish people would pay

for a photo safari

instead of a hunting safari.

But they don't.

There's no other way.

So you bring rich tourists back

to the past o jeopardize the future.

I appreciate

what you're trying to accomplish.

But it's dangerous. This is bigger

than what you

or anyone else is working on.

It's bulletproof.

A new government agency

is assigned to us.

They check our protocols up,

down, and sideways.

That's how Hatton

got the green light.

You don't have a clue about

Charles Hatton! It's about money.

It's always the same

when there's so much of it involved.

But this is different.

You are messing

with the whole of evolution.

Nothing is bulletproof.

It must have been amazing.

God help us.

Hey, pal, you break it,

you bought it.

Sorry.

Whoa, what's that?

The molecular structure

of allosaurus blood.

No way.

Cool.

The doorman let me in.

I told him I was

your cousin from St. Louis.

I always did like Aunt Martha.

I'm afraid I've killed it.

Or at least driven it to suicide.

Got a bit of a brown thumb.

- Maybe a little sunlight will help.

- You just moved in?

No, I've been here

for about two years.

Okay.

Chloe thinks I'm going to a farm.

What's that about?

My wife told her I was

going to sow some wild oats.

Adorable. Little kids are adorable.

Could you say that

with less enthusiasm?

I'm not fond of adorable.

I rate it just below perky.

It's nice you have a family.

Without families,

what would we do with Christmas?

Me? I run my company

and that's about it.

Your kids will grow up.

My company will be

acquired by somebody. So what?

We're sleepwalking through life.

Admit it or not,

we're bored out of our minds.

I'm not bored out of my mind.

What's the last exciting thing you did?

- Play fetch with your dog?

- I don't know...

Come on! This'll arouse

the old, dormant male instinct.

- Make us feel alive.

- It's awfully expensive.

Why be rich if we don't buy things

other people can't afford?

George, how's life?

I can't complain.

If I did, who would listen?

Tell me about it. Oh, could you...

- I'll get a cab for your cousin.

- Thanks.

Standard liability release forms.

- That's a lot of forms.

- There's a lot of liability.

We take you back

65 million years to hunt

the greatest predator

the world has ever seen.

We are the first

and only people able to do this.

We use technology that wasn't

even a dream a few years ago.

A new federal agency,

the Department of Temporal Regulation,

was created for us.

This is not a game.

There is no reset button.

Today, on this hunt...

someone will die.

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