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.

The only way to save Earth from catastrophe is to drill down to the core and set it spinning again.Strangely enough, the worst part of this film is the part about them drilling into the core. Or, in other words, the entire second half. The practicality of it is so nonsensical that it makes "Armageddon" look plausible.However, the first half is quite good. Aaron Eckhart is wonderful and a convincing scientist. The discussions of theoretical matters is quite interesting. I did not realize, for example, that the core of the earth is as big as Mars! (Yes, it's true.) The problem only really starts when these theories get tested in a silly way.

Gotta love early 2000s man vs nature, end of the world type of flicks. But I had to quit watching it after an hour because the special effects are awful. I know, I know it was made over 13 years ago but still. This is a disaster movie and half of a disaster movie is the special effects. It doesn't matter, the movie is kind of cheese anyway. From what I saw, it is about a 5 out of ten movie anyway. But I'm going to give it a 4 out of 10 because it wasn't even good enough to keep me watching it. Whatever, I think my review for this film is going to be longer than I should be. I literally shouldn't even be typing anything right now.

I've seen this movie quite a few times. The effects are great the premise is sound and the plot is wild. Kind of like a hi tech journey to the center of the earth. It's great fun and has many emotional moments. Hillary does a fine job in her role. Highly recommend for all family members. Don't listen to the bad reviews. This movie is good clean entertainment with lots of fine special effects and scenarios to keep you entertained for the entire run. A lot of current disaster flicks don't have the quality of cast and plot as does this one. I'm sure you will be pleased you saw this movie as were I and many of my friends. I highly recommend it. It could easily have a sequel using the same cast (the survivors) in a film using the tech developed in this one. Enjoy 😀