The Core Reviews
Top CriticThis is one shelved project that should have stayed on the shelf.
| Original Score: 2/5
I have such an unreasonable affection for this movie, indeed, that it is only by slapping myself alongside the head and drinking black coffee that I can restrain myself from recommending it.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
So howlingly awful that it has unwittingly found a place in that elite group of films that can claim to be 'so bad they're good.'
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Often big, dumb, explosion movies are fun to watch and do very well at the box office. But this one suffers from very bad timing
| Original Score: C+
Common Sense Media
This is a big, dumb, explosion movie.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Arizona Daily Star
This film will self-destruct.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
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+
Netflix
Geological disaster flick is smarter than you'd think ... which isn't saying much.
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| Original Score: 2/5
[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.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
The Core would be a better movie if it were worse.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
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.
Slant Magazine
A lumbering mishmash of recent disaster flicks that's as aggressively loud and obnoxious as it is tiresomely stupid.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Flipside Movie Emporium
Is it bad? Oh yes. But it's the best kind of bad: a wonderful exuberant bad that only well-meaning-yet-misguided moviemakers can provide.
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| Original Score: C
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.
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+
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
Combustible Celluloid
The details in the film leave a lot to be desired, and the script rips open many more holes than it seals up.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Movie Eye
Despite the boisterous production values of this overwrought and unevenly irreverent disaster B movie, The Core never really shows us anything worth exploring under its nonsensical albeit volatile crusty surface.
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| Original Score: 2/4
I never thought I'd see the day when I would write that someone like Qualls acts circles around Tucci, Jenkins or Lindo, some of our best actors.
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| Original Score: 2/4
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
