The Core
In an attempt to save the world from the mysterious stop for the earth's inner core, the thing that risks the lives on earth, according to the dangerous consequences for that stop, as the strange behavior of animals and the strong storms, Dr. Josh Keyes, with the help of his team, try to use a nuclear device to make things well.
29 November 1970, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
21 March 1975, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
11 November 1960, Peekskill, New York, USA
5 August 1970, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
22 January 1977, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
27 January 1964, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
30 July 1974, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
March 28, 2003
The Core works because the characters are idiosyncratic enough to seem authentic but not so zany that they seem contrived.
March 31, 2003
[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.
December 28, 2010
This is a big, dumb, explosion movie.
March 28, 2003
There's a marked absence of panic in The Core.
March 31, 2005
'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.'
May 05, 2015
...pervasive mediocrity...
October 15, 2004
If something isn't done soon, the earth as we know it (love that cliché) will destroy itself. Who do you call? Core busters!
March 28, 2003
Scientists may shudder, but at least some good actors are getting work.
July 06, 2004
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
December 23, 2012
A magical film: it never runs out of new and delightful ways to be completely inane.
March 28, 2003
Jules Verne this isn't, but it makes for fairly diverting escapist fare.
