Synopsis
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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Cast
- Aaron EckhartDr. Josh Keyes
- Hilary SwankMaj. Rebecca Childs
- Delroy LindoDr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
- Stanley TucciDr. Conrad Zimsky
- Tchéky KaryoSerge
- DJ QuallsTheodore Donald 'Rat' Finch
- Richard JenkinsGen. Thomas Purcell
- Bruce GreenwoodCmdr. Robert Iverson
- Christopher ShyerDave Perry
- Ray GallettiPaul
Recommendations
- 75
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. - 63
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." - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
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. - 60
Variety
More palatable than most pictures of its ilk due to its keen awareness of its own preposterousness, a self-knowledge exuberantly expressed by a mostly live-wire cast. - 60
Chicago Reader
The talented cast--manages to rescue the movie as well as the earth. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
The similarities between this film and Michael Bay's overblown "Armageddon"are too numerous to ignore; the crucial difference is that this one is actually pretty good. - 50
Chicago Tribune
Elaborate misfire, which misuses an unusually good cast. - 50
Salon
There's a refreshing surefootedness in the way Amiel, his screenwriters Cooper Layne and John Rogers, and most of his actors recognize how preposterous the idea of traveling to the center of the earth in a souped-up Rototiller really is.
