Just heard a program on the radio about the worst movies ever made (gems like The Room and Plan 9 among them) and it motivated me to come here and highly recommend Deep Core as a must-watch bad movie. Deep core features all of the core elements of a classic sci-fi failure: Laughable dialogue, cheesy CGI, weak plot and terrible acting (even Bruce McGill's - though he's a pretty good character actor otherwise). All of this combines to make an awesomely bad experience. It's also worth noting that Deep Core features the absolute BEST human-lava-melt scene in cinematic history - surely never to be outdone.Rent this and laughs will ensue.

Difficult to tell actually who is copying whom since apparently Deep Core is dated 2000 and The Core is dated 2003. At any rate, the similarities (but not the budgets) are compelling: 1)Laser-operated drilling gizmo for going through the Earth 2) Lots of magma around 3) People get snuffed by magma 4) Earth put in peril by misuse of something related to drilling/earthquakes 5) Nukes needed to restore balance 6) Five nukes required 7) Detachable unit(s), at least one required for success.Draw your own conclusions.I must admit that Wil Wheaton did a credible job.I didn't mind him getting snuffed though.Oz

If you take a movie and it doesn't work out so good, just keep the script and recast it three years later. Anyone who saw this movie and said it sucked had better not go see the core and say it rocks. I love it when hollywood blatantly recycles movies that bombed.

The same flaming digital f/x repeated over and over during the credits hints that there's something wrong with this film. However, if you ignore that warning and continue to watch, all sort of evils will escape from this Pandora's box: a machine that allegedly blows up but only showers sparks like a sparkler; hand-held camera shots with that home-movie look; a cliche villain/capitalist; the cliche battle between the scientist sexes; a brief earthquake scene of a city (looks like a postcard) wherein one tall building starts to crumble like a jigsaw puzzle; an odd puffy-faced (like he just had his wisdom teeth removed) twenty-something Whil Wheaton making a joke about his ex-wife...This is no modern "Crack in the world," no hidden diamond in the rough but a depressing clunker. On the positive side, it makes you appreciate aspects and techniques of good movies you took for granted or weren't aware of.