The Core | | Cast : | Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Bruce Greenwood | | Director : | Jon Amiel | | Studio : | Paramount Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | March 28, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | December 29, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 06, 2005 | | Summary | Suceeds at Everything but Entertaining | Content
 | The Core is smart and has a good plot but it shouldn't of been a movie. It tries so hard to bring twists to make it more exciting but none of it works. The actors and the characters they played were not convincing. The action scenes were boring! The Core... is a bore. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 05, 2005 | | Summary | The longer you watch the more ridiculous it gets | Content
| The most entertaining thing about this movie is watching good actors pretend that they are in an actual good film. Poor humorless Hilary Swank, she is just an earnest in this as everything else. Stanley Tucci at least plays up being the jackass. The acting is surprisingly good considering just how bad the writing is. Even the effects are ok. But as this movie goes along it just moves from one crazy idea to the next. I should have caught on as to how out of control this movie would be when they landed the space shuttle in the L.A. River. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | A B movie through and through | Content
| First, forget science. Period. Don't even attempted to make sense of the baloney they talk about. None of it is even theoretically possible. It isn't even believeable. I watched this with friends and anytime the characters started talking science we laughed and/or groaned.
Second, the plot is a joke. Nothing to be said about it.
Third, the climax is ... is ... *sigh* There really isn't one. There could have been one if they had to explode their vehicle for the last over-the-top mega nuke thus making this a tragedy, but that would mean the writers could write. They didn't and went for the sappy unbelieveable fizzing-out ending.
Don't buy this movie. Don't rent it. If you must see it, borrow it for free from your public library. I did and I am so very glad I did. If I had paid a penny to see it, I would have demanded my money back.
Having said all that, why do I give this movie a "2" instead of a "1"? Simply because it is a bad sci fi movie that will make a party laugh watching it. Oh, and they won't be laughing at any jokes in the movie, but simply at the movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 28, 2005 | | Summary | This Time Mankind's Greatest Threat Is Earth Itself... | Content
| The end of the world is a concept that has been dealt with in movies several times, sometimes successfully, other times not so much. The successes when they occur are generally huge box office blockbusters, such as; "Armageddon" and "ID4: Independence Day", unsuccessful examples would be the dismally boring films, "Deep Impact" and "Battlefield Earth". Generally speaking, when Hollywood deems it time to do another end of the world disaster movie, the threat originates from somewhere in outer space, whether it be asteroids streaking towards Earth or aliens determined to annihilate us, space is where it all begins. To shake things up Warner Brothers decided to do another end of the world disaster movie, but this time have the threat to civilization come from within Earth itself.
The story of "The Core" is the `what if?' tale of the Earth's core (or engine as it is referred to in this movie) no longer spinning. This event causes numerous geological disasters to occur that will culminate with the complete destruction of the ozone layer, allowing the sun's rays to blast us into oblivion. To prevent this disaster from occurring a team of scientific specialists are brought in to drill a hole into the Earth's crust down to it's core, using an experimental ship to get them there, and detonating a nuclear bomb that will in theory `kick-start' the Earth's core into spinning again.
With a hokey storyline pulled directly out of a B-movie science fiction film. That borrows heavily from previous disaster films ("Armageddon" for example), Warner Brothers looked as if they had a gigantic stinker on their hands. But surprisingly Warner Brothers pulled off an entertaining, though predictable summer movie. Good acting and dazzling special effects provide enough distraction from the flimsy storyline that feels way too much like "Armageddon", in the sense that the scientists must pilot an experimental ship into the Earth's core and detonate a nuclear device to prevent disaster. That sounds an awful lot like a team of oil drillers and NASA scientists being sent into space to detonate a nuclear bomb that will split a huge asteroid in two pieces, averting disaster.
Complaints aside this was a well-acted film with a talented cast comprised of Delroy Lindo, Aaron Eckhart, and beautiful Hilary Swank. Though I felt I had seen much of the movie before due to similarities, I still enjoyed the film for what it was, a good popcorn flick that is not intended to be thought provoking in any way at all. If you are in the mood for a good disaster flick, or to just get away from it all for two hours then I recommend sitting down and watching "The Core".
"The Core" is rated PG-13 for violence and language. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 25, 2005 | | Summary | This Movie Will Be The "Center" of Attraction! | Content
| This is one of those movies that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Who will survive, who won't and why? The acting and camera work is so good, you think you are in the movie. They sweat, then you sweat, they are cold, then you get cold. One of my favorite characters die in the movie but I cannot tell you who it is without ruining it for you. |
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