The Core Reviews
Antagony & Ecstasy
A magical film: it never runs out of new and delightful ways to be completely inane.
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| Original Score: 2/10
Common Sense Media
This is a big, dumb, explosion movie.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Film Threat
'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.'
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| Original Score: 3/5
Kansas City Kansan
If something isn't done soon, the earth as we know it (love that cliché) will destroy itself. Who do you call? Core busters!
Full Review | Original Score: B
F5 (Wichita, KS)
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
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| Original Score: 2/5
eFilmCritic.com
'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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Atlantic City Weekly
The Core ain’t your grandma’s journey to the center of the earth.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
The Core is really nothing more than a special effects show, but for the most part, they aren't exactly special.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Apollo Guide
A disaster film with a high calibre cast, atrocious, inane dialogue, unspectacular special effects and questionable science. But fun nonetheless.
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| Original Score: 68/100
EDGE Boston
Hillary Swank and Aaron Eckhart lead the latest adventure to save the world from natural forces... YAWN.
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| Original Score: D+
Long Island Press
A mostly static excursion with a weak premise when it comes to explaining what went wrong with the planet, and an even weaker remedy offered for making it right again.
Sci-Fi Movie Page
Something almost gleeful in the way it recounts disasters such as the San Francisco Bridge being roasted by cosmic rays . . .
Peterborough This Week
Any glutton for big screen mayhem will agree that beholding the Golden Gate Bridge fry like an ant underneath a magnifying glass is alone well worth top theatre dollar
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)
The Core has a crackerjack ticking-clock momentum that builds with a what-could-possibly-go-wrong-next vibe.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
Sunday Times (Australia)
Switch off, space out, and go where no self-respecting film lover has gone before.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Cinema Sight
What the film suffers from is a lack of direction, a lackadaisical pace and effects that don't get the blood pumping.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
FilmStew.com
Amiel's film is a messy, speculative chamber piece augmented by indistinct visual effects and performances that seem to be playing directly to the blue-screen backgrounds instead of to the actors who were hired to make the highfalutin conceit plausible.
Moviola
'Simple película palomera de la cual no se van a acordar nada a los cinco minutos de haber abandonado la sala de proyección'
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
The big letdown are the stultifying visuals that look more like 80's theme park motion-ride effects. Now boarding Core Tours!
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| Original Score: C+
