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The Core (2003)

March. 28,2003
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5.5
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PG-13
| Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction

Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the world's most gifted scientists, travel into the earth's core. Their mission: detonate a device that will reactivate the core.

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FeistyUpper
2003/03/28

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

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Ella-May O'Brien
2003/03/29

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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Lela
2003/03/30

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

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Francene Odetta
2003/03/31

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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tracylong-09623
2003/04/01

Although the Core came out in 2003 it seems more like a product of the mid-late 90s disaster films. Similar look, basic premise and big stars- recipe for the holiday blockbuster. But The Core was panned by critics as I recall and one look at the wiki page tells me it was a box office dud failing to recoup its production budget. But it's alright film if you can shut your brains down. It's so bad its good and for such films scientific accuracy or common sense should not be used.

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Wuchak
2003/04/02

Released in early 2003 and directed by Jon Amiel, "The Core" is a sci-fi disaster flick starring Hilary Swank as a hotshot pilot who "flies" a giant drill into the core of the earth with a team of experts (Aaron Eckhart, Tchéky Karyo, Stanley Tucci, Delroy Lindo & Bruce Greenwood). Why? The earth's magnetic fields have gone wild and the only answer is to journey to the center of the planet, plant a series of nuclear charges and get out, thereby restoring the proper magnetic fields. DJ Qualls and Alfre Woodard offer assistance topside. The plot is a meshing of 1959's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and 1998's "Armageddon," but it's not as entertaining as either. One problem is that it lacks star power for such a blockbuster. Don't get me wrong, the main cast members are stalwart in their roles, but none of them were top-drawer actors at the time; and only Swank went on to a fairly stellar film career, although Greenwood has done pretty well and Eckhart has done okay. I'm just saying that they're a far cry from Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck and Michael Clarke Duncan (all from "Armageddon").Despite the incredible disaster scenario and the dubious science (I guess that's why they call it science-FICTION, huh?), the story's fairly engaging, occasionally thrilling and sometimes even wondrous in the manner of 1966's "Fantastic Voyage" and 1979's "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." The main characters being stuck in and around an earth-burrowing ship also bring to mind movies like 1979's "Alien" and 1989's "The Abyss." Yet "The Core" somehow comes across as second-rate to these hallmark films(not that I'm a big fan of "The Abyss," but it's better than this). Jon Amiel directed 1993's underrated "Sommersby" and 1999's "Entrapment," but when "The Core" flopped at the box office (not majorly, but it still failed to make a profit) he left behind feature films for TV directing, which he didn't even do until two years after "The Core." Still, it's worth checking out if you like the cast and are in the mode for an earth-threatening disaster flick. The film runs 135 minutes and was shot mainly in British Columbia, but with scenes from around the US and world (e.g. the Golden Gate Bridge, Rome, Paris and Trafalgar Square, England).GRADE: C

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OneEightNine Media
2003/04/03

Gotta love early 2000s man vs nature, end of the world type of flicks. But I had to quit watching it after an hour because the special effects are awful. I know, I know it was made over 13 years ago but still. This is a disaster movie and half of a disaster movie is the special effects. It doesn't matter, the movie is kind of cheese anyway. From what I saw, it is about a 5 out of ten movie anyway. But I'm going to give it a 4 out of 10 because it wasn't even good enough to keep me watching it. Whatever, I think my review for this film is going to be longer than I should be. I literally shouldn't even be typing anything right now.

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toonarly
2003/04/04

I've seen this movie quite a few times. The effects are great the premise is sound and the plot is wild. Kind of like a hi tech journey to the center of the earth. It's great fun and has many emotional moments. Hillary does a fine job in her role. Highly recommend for all family members. Don't listen to the bad reviews. This movie is good clean entertainment with lots of fine special effects and scenarios to keep you entertained for the entire run. A lot of current disaster flicks don't have the quality of cast and plot as does this one. I'm sure you will be pleased you saw this movie as were I and many of my friends. I highly recommend it. It could easily have a sequel using the same cast (the survivors) in a film using the tech developed in this one. Enjoy 😀

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