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Original title: Core, The
Release Date
USA: Mar 28, 2003
UK: 28 Mar 2003
DVD Release Date
R1: Sep 9, 2003
R2: 13 Oct 2003
Budget $74,000,000
Official Website:
The Core Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for sci-fi life/death situations and brief strong language.
Running Time
2 hours, 15 minutes
Country UK, USA
Production Companies
Core Prods. Inc., David Foster Productions, Horsepower Films
Studio Cooper Layne, David Foster Productions, Horsepower Entertainment, Sean Bailey
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Other Titles
• The Core (2003)
• Core
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Genre: Action, Thriller, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Supernatural, Disaster, Suspense, Cult Classic
Tagline: Earth has a deadline
Plot: When unexplained catastrophes strike around the globe, geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) and French atomic weapons expert Dr. Sergei Leveque (Tcheky Karyo) are summoned by General Thomas Purcell (Richard Jenkins) 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 earths inner core has stopped rotating. As a result, the planet's electromagnetic field, which shields the earth from deadly solar radiation, is collapsing. If the problem is not resolved quickly, airplanes will start falling from the sky and everything electronic will be destroyed. Static discharge in the atmosphere will create "super-storms" with hundreds of lightning strikes per square mile, and deadliest of all, microwave radiation will literally cook the planet.Terrified by his findings. Keyes seeks out the opinion of renowned geophysicist Dr. Conrad Zimsky (Stanley Tucci), an arrogant scientist who arrives at the same horrifying conclusion. Together. they determine that the only way to reactivate the core is to travel to it. But how? Man has walked on the moon and landed on Mars, but never has anyone dared to explore the
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A journey to the center of the earth, with filmmakers who know exactly how preposterous this movie really is.--Stephanie Zacharek (Salon)
A film that is able to unite mankind in a veil of universal hatred.  --Carl Lazarevic (MovieWeb)
With over two hours to fill, there's not enough disaster or sparkling dialogue to keep up the momentum, but it's still a fun popcorn flick. As cheesy movies go, this is the ripest of camemberts.  --Jamie Russell (BBC Films)
Everything about "The Core" is routine B-movie science fiction, except the setting, which is treated as an inner version of outer space.--Jack Mathews (New York Daily News)
A decent "disaster" flick that touches upon all of the staple marks that any pic of its genre requires including a catastrophic opening, the government's assemblage of a ragtag team of experts from various fields, scenes of preparation and CGI destruction, a few one-liners, a few emotional moments, a few suspenseful flashes and various dire situations in which it appears as though there is no way out until...McGyver shows up with a fingernail and some string and the world is saved!! 6/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
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Thoroughly enjoyable sci-fi disaster movie in the best B movie tradition the effects and dialogue have their ropey moments, but this is great fun. Much better than Armageddon.  --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
So bad that, in a funny sort of way, it actually becomes extremely entertaining. 6/10--Gary Panton (Movie Gazette)
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