The Core
12,614
Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Action
When unexplained catastrophes strike around the globe, geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) and French atomic weapons expert Dr. Sergei Leveque (Tchéky Karyo) are summoned to Washington, D.C., to determine if covert enemy action is to blame. Working with his team at the University of Illinois, Keyes discovers the mystery behind the tragedies is more frightening than any act of war-the earth’s inner core has stopped rotating. As a ... [+]
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United States | The Washington Post | "A two-hour pleasure cruise" | POS |
United States | Philadelphia Inquirer | "'The Core' is unabashed Hollywood spectacle, but with a cast of up-from-indie actors that makes the cataclysmic kitsch all the more fun to behold." | POS |
United States | ReelViews | "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.'" | NEU |
United States | Variety | "More palatable than most pictures of its ilk due to its keen awareness of its own preposterousness" | NEU |
United States | San Francisco Chronicle | "It's a straight-ahead adventure with the usual number of thrills, but with the added virtue of being smarter and more sober than one might expect." | POS |
United States | Rolling Stone | "'The Core' isn't offensive, just unblushingly tacky and derivative." | NEG |
United States | USA Today | "Jules Verne this isn't, but it makes for fairly diverting escapist fare." | POS |
United States | Los Angeles Times | "If The Core finally has to be classified as a mess, it is an enjoyable one if you're in a throwback mood." | NEU |
United Kingdom | BBC | "The best part of any disaster movie, from 'Earthquake' to 'Independence Day', is watching major cities reduced to a pile of smoking rubble, and 'The Core' certainly doesn't disappoint." | POS |
United States | Slant | "A lumbering mishmash of recent disaster flicks that's as aggressively loud and obnoxious as it is tiresomely stupid." | NEG |
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