The Core Reviews
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
Atlantic City Weekly
The Core ain’t your grandma’s journey to the center of the earth.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4
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
Top Critic
Zap2it.com
The feeling that you've seen this all before when you sit down to watch "The Core" is not some intensely psychic deja vu. You have seen this before, if you've watched any of the potboiler sci-fi Jules Verne films like "Fantastic Voyage," "20,000 Leagues U
Cinemaphile.org
...a generally watchable but somewhat disjointed effort that always knows where it is going, even if the destination itself lacks all the luster of a true disaster epic.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Aisle Seat
When we are living in a post-terrorism era (and in a current war situation), it's kind of nice to sit down and watch a movie in which everyone is worrying about something we in the audience really don't have to worry about.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Cinema em Cena
Apesar de abusar na utilização de clichês, o roteiro de O Núcleo possui a grande vantagem de saber rir de si mesmo.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Boxoffice Magazine
Good, silly fun.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
EricDSnider.com
There are the expected heroics and martyrdoms, quarrels and resolutions, one-liners and kisses. It is not ... subtle, and it's too long, but it is a decent bit of silly fun.
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| Original Score: B-
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Boosted by a fine cast that manages to sell Layne's purple script, the movie never really seems to stop. It just keeps going, just keeps drilling, just keeps moving, offering a wild ride in the process, one that's just absurd enough to enjoy.
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| Original Score: B
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)
A dumb, insanely predictable apocalyptic thriller that somehow manages to be enormously entertaining.
| Original Score: 3/4
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Enjoy the ride and consider this mindless entertainment.
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| Original Score: 6/10
BlackFilm.com
Some science fiction films are supposed to be fun. These are throw away films; films to take to your mind away from the things we face in real life. Go with this thought and you will enjoy The Core. If not, then this film is a complete mess with no hope
