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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The Core is the flipside of movies such as Deep Impact and Armageddon. It really is a straightlaced version of Journey to the Centre of the Earth with all the cheesy fantasy bits ripped out and replaced with bad science and singing whales.The Earth's magnetic field has gone to pot. People die because their pacemakers have suddenly switched off. Birds fly into buildings in London. Even the Space Shuttle misses its landing spot.Dr Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) a brilliant Geophysicist professor has a theory that the core of the planet has stopped revolving and it is causing havoc with the magnetic field. The American government has an audacious plan to kickstart the planet's core by devising a special ship to drill down the earth's core and causing a massive nuclear explosion.Piloted by two Nasa astronauts, Beck Childs (Hilary Swank) and Bob Iverson (Bruce Greenwood) and a motley crew of brilliant scientists. The team begins its mission with time running short. However a crew member perishes one by one due to the adverse conditions and bad luck.The film is too long, the special effects are poor but the movie is fun even if the script is just nonsense.
Although the Core came out in 2003 it seems more like a product of the mid-late 90s disaster films. Similar look, basic premise and big stars- recipe for the holiday blockbuster. But The Core was panned by critics as I recall and one look at the wiki page tells me it was a box office dud failing to recoup its production budget. But it's alright film if you can shut your brains down. It's so bad its good and for such films scientific accuracy or common sense should not be used.
I watched this movie in 2018 after 15 years of it's release. I learned a lot about our earth and Electro Magnetic field, compared to movies nowadays, this one is way much better and looks more Real, excellent digital effects, movies today looks fake.
This film is literally so bad it hurts. It is "The Room" made with a budget of $60mil and a cast of well-known actors. The level of pseudo- science spouted off is on a par with a 50s low-budget SF movie. The plot is so weak and so full of unbelievable twists and solutions that a 3-year-old would scratch his head. Just wow!
