The Core (2003)
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 153
Fresh: 63 | Rotten: 90
A B-movie with its tongue planted firmly in cheek, The Core is so unintentionally (intentionally?) bad that it's a hoot.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 17
A B-movie with its tongue planted firmly in cheek, The Core is so unintentionally (intentionally?) bad that it's a hoot.
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An unlikely band of scientists and soldiers join forces to save the world from certain destruction in this action-drama. As the world is struck with a variety of inexplicable phenomena -- attacks by enormous swarms of birds in London, the explosion of the Colosseum in Rome, a potentially deadly malfunction which forces the Space Shuttle into a Los Angeles riverbed, and the simultaneous deaths of 32 people with pacemakers in Boston -- a team of top scientific minds from around the globe is
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Cast
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Aaron Eckhart
Dr. Josh Keyes -
Hilary Swank
Major Rebecca "Beck" Ch... -
Delroy Lindo
Dr. Ed "Braz" Brazzelto... -
Stanley Tucci
Dr. Conrad Zimsky -
D.J. Qualls
Rat -
Richard Jenkins
General Purcell -
Tcheky Karyo
Dr. Serge Levesque -
Bruce Greenwood
Commander Richard Ivers... -
Alfre Woodard
NASA Chief Talma Stickl... -
Nathaniel De Veaux
U.S.S. Constellation Ca... -
Glenn Morshower
FBI Agent -
John Shaw
FBI Agent Rat's Apartme... -
Claire Riley
News Anchor -
Gregg Bennett
Technician Virgil Base -
Rosa DiBrigida
Rome Café Patron, Rome... -
Matt Winston
Luke Barry -
Lenie Scoffie
Paris Café Lady, Paris... -
Laurie Murdoch
Project Destiny Enginee... -
Christopher Shyer
Dave Perry -
Anthony Harrison
FBI Agent -
Ray Galletti
Paul -
Fred Keating
Court Martial Presiding... -
Hrothgar Matthews
Chief Engineer Mission ... -
Dion Johnstone
Flight Engineer Timmins -
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Rekha Sharma
Danni -
Nicole Leroux
Mom -
Fred Ewanuick
Endeavor Flight Enginee... -
Nickolas Baric
Security Policeman Trib... -
Eileen Pedde
Lynne -
Marke Driesschen
News Anchor -
Costa Spanos
Project Destiny Enginee... -
Tom Schilte
Acker -
Justin Callan
Little Boy -
Chris Humphreys
GBTV Reporter Trafalgar... -
Shawn Green
Himself -
Hong Ming-Tzong
Scientist -
Jennifer Spence
Zimsky's Assistant -
Michael St. John Smith
Pentagon General -
Roberto Roberto
Rome Café Patron, Rome... -
Ermanno De Biagi
Rome Café Patron, Rome... -
Marcello Laurentis
Rome Café Patron, Rome... -
Monique Martel
Paris Café Lady, Paris... -
Robert Mantiopyes
U.S.S. Constellation Sc...
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All Critics (173) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (64) | Rotten (91) | DVD (28)
Undigestible fusion of worst-case earth science and leaden pacing.
Top Critic[I]t's not campy enough to be consistently entertaining, and it's certainly not exciting or smart enough to be a first-rate sci-fi epic like a Deep Impact.
Jules Verne this isn't, but it makes for fairly diverting escapist fare.
There's a marked absence of panic in The Core.
Scientists may shudder, but at least some good actors are getting work.
The Core works because the characters are idiosyncratic enough to seem authentic but not so zany that they seem contrived.
A magical film: it never runs out of new and delightful ways to be completely inane.
This is a big, dumb, explosion movie.
'The only truly interesting aspect found in "The Core" is Jon Amiel's thoughts as to what the inner parts of Earth might look like.'
If something isn't done soon, the earth as we know it (love that cliché) will destroy itself. Who do you call? Core busters!
Should be a sci-fi screenwriter's dream; but this dream is more like one that Michael Crichton would have than Jules Verne, and there's not a breath of imagination on display
'Look out! It's diamonds big as Cape Cod!' No, they're large black blobs that the CGI guys clearly didn't have time to fill in with vector graphics. No need for alarm.
The Core ain’t your grandma’s journey to the center of the earth.
The Core is really nothing more than a special effects show, but for the most part, they aren't exactly special.
A disaster film with a high calibre cast, atrocious, inane dialogue, unspectacular special effects and questionable science. But fun nonetheless.
Hillary Swank and Aaron Eckhart lead the latest adventure to save the world from natural forces... YAWN.
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Part of this is down to the likeable cast of science bods for me, Eckhart has always kinda been the bigger version of Scott Bakula in my humble view, a nice guy with floppy hair haha Karyon and Lindo are both solid as always and Tucci is fully enjoyable as the whiney scrawny egghead who will obviously kick the bucket hehe. Only downside is the Justin Bieber lookalike Swank who is just too damn wholesome and American to stand for so long.
The film is simply fun from the get go really, your typical disaster scenes across the world to the cool ideas the film makers came up with for the earth's interior, it really does feel like an updated 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth' when the crew break into a huge geode which then begins to leak lava. I think the creative team did well with whats shown as the crew progress deeper, I'm sure its wrong but it looks cool.
As you near the climax the plot does get a little more emotional as members fall by the wayside one by one much like all disaster flicks do and this does keep you glued to the screen somewhat, its very predictable but you wanna see it through.
I think the plot is well worked in this film, it seems like an impossible task but the theories of how you could actually jump start the center of the earth are clever I guess, you know its not real but it looks and sounds like it could be. I also liked the craft design they use, the 'space' suits and all the science guff they babble when the heat is on (no pun intended), a shame the ending is so flat but it beats the over blown all American showboating you got in 'Armageddon'.