The Core

2003 "The only way out is in."
5.5| 2h16m| PG-13| en
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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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Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
usezer1 I agree with fellow guy who thinks 'it is a very very good cast'. Earth magnet is a hot topic right now yet it is interesting. the movie is good overall a fantastic cast carries the movie, starts with a biblical phenomena yet it is so annoying the writing is insulting viewers brain. spoiler (when 25 people dies in a short given radius the first thing you do not to grab 2 scientist from their classroom,) you do an authopsy. so We would rather see some doctors in the sea at least mention, 'our doctors could not find the cause' morover, it seems like a characteristic scenerio for save the earth type of movie to not to reveal what is coming to the common people.I guess out of given time 2 hrs 17 min. the producers did not wanted to spend the given 200 mil budget. Well, I m not a movie major but when you have a solid interesting fact about radiation waves, turnados, acid rains, and traveling to the core of the earth, you expect much more realism. the sense of humor of the main charactors is enjoyable... well comparing the success of 2012, the marketing was over the budget for that movie, full page of newspapers, a disaster movie with character could have made a bigger bang if followed as I outlined earlier. a sea captain in dead calm.a prodigy to earn 2 oscars for women, french, and stanly tucci, 2 black actors at their finest time. what else do u want ? it is not a cheesy movie. yet does not have the wow effect.
Leofwine_draca THE CORE is a '50s B-movie writ large. It may not be a brilliant film, but it successfully taps the 'anything goes' mentality of a schlocky black-and-white sci fi epic and updates the formula to modern times. In essence the movie itself is about a crew drilling down into the core of the earth; if you're looking for more depth (hah) than that, then look elsewhere. However, the decision was then made to add some familiar 'disaster' scenes to the mix, thus increasing the running time to over two hours in the process and making this movie way too long. With half an hour cut out, the tension and story would have been tighter and it wouldn't have that bloated Hollywood blockbuster feel to it.Of course, the 1959 epic JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH with James Mason is THE drilling-into-the-Earth movie and THE CORE doesn't come close. Ironically, the special effects are worse than in that film; despite replacing tacky dinosaurs with CGI effects of molten rock and running lava, all of the 'outside' scenes of the craft heading underground are poor-looking in the extreme. However, I did like the 'global disaster' set pieces which are thrown in to keep the film exciting. Highlights include: falling pigeons in Trafalgar Square; super-storms in Rome; people dropping down dead in a US city and my favourite moment, when a hole in the Earth's atmosphere sends down a heat ray that melts the Golden Gate bridge – a wonderful and surprisingly sadistic moment.Speaking of sadism, THE CORE sets about offing crew members with relish, imaginatively inventing the most horrific deaths in existence for these poor saps. One guy is slowly crushed to death; another is blown to pieces; a third literally melts in the lava and a fourth burns alive. It would be pretty disturbing, had the film more realism. I didn't mind the script, which has some authentic-sounding dialogue in places, and you can't fault a movie that name-checks one of my favourite magazines. There's also some good humour, like the 'yes, yes, and the core is made of cheese!' quip that Stanley Tucci's scientist character utters. There's not as much annoying flag-waving as in Armageddon, although the pay-off (using a bomb to save the world) is virtually the same.The casting ain't bad either. Aaron Eckhart (THE DARK NIGHT) excels as the rugged lead; Hilary Swank is the tough-cookie pilot forced to make some drastic decisions. I didn't care for Stanley Tucci's acting, but I did appreciate the presence of Tcheky Karyo (KISS OF THE DRAGON) in a good-guy role for once – in fact, he's my favourite character in the film.
Davis P The Core intrigued me originally, but it ultimately did not live up to my expectations. The cast, I actually quite liked, I liked Hilary Swank, and Eckhart, and Tucci, I thought they all had good chemistry together, and I enjoyed Alfre Woodward's performance too. The effects, as you can tell from the film's poster, run pretty rampant here. They are just fine when they are in the core and the audience is seeing lava and humongous crystals, and the ship flying looks fine too. There were however a few parts where the effects just didn't look all that good, even for 2003. So the effects are like a 70/30, so it leans in the right direction. The issue I take with The Core is that whenever an action packed/effects driven scene isn't going on, there just isn't any good dialogue or engaging characters. The actors really do give it their all, but the source material just is not that good or deep at all. The characters really do seem like cardboard cut outs, not much depth to them, some good cool depth behind the different characters would've been great to see! 6/10 for The Core. Not quite :/
toonarly 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 😀