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 earth’s 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 inner, deepest regions of the earth... until now.
Living in a remote area of the Utah desert, a brilliant scientist. Dr. Ed "Braz" Brazzelton (Delroy Lindo), has developed an untested subterranean craft that they hope will be able to penetrate deep into the earth, even as far as the core. Now it is up to Keyes, a team of scientists and astronauts Major Rebecca "Beck" Childs (Hillary Swank) and Commander Robert Iverson (Bruce Greenwood), who have just been recruited as the world’s first "terranauts," to drive this high-tech vessel into the earth, detonate a nuclear device and somehow restore balance to the planet. It’s the ultimate leap of faith... not into outer space but into inner space. a journey into an unknown frontier where truly no man has gone before.
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"Edge-of-your-seat thrill ride that's a total blast." -Shawn Edwards, FOX-TV
Academy Award winner Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) leads an all-star cast in this electrifying journey that puts you in the middle of the most spectacular film adventure.
Geophysicist, Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart, Erin Brockovich) has made a terrifying discovery: the Earth's inner core has stopped rotating. Now the planet's electromagnetic field is deteriorating and within months, Earth will be destroyed.
One hop exists: to send Keyes and an elite team of scientists in a subterranean vessel to the center of the Earth. As mankind's fate hangs in the balance, the scientists and the ship's crew must do the unthinkable-detonate a nuclear device to reactivate the Earth's core.
co-starring Delroy Lindo (Ransom), Emmy Award winner Stanley Tucci and Academy Award nominee Alfre Woodard.
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After a geophysicist discovers that the Earth's inner core has stopped rotating, an elite team of specialists has one last chance to save the world-by journeying into the center of the Earth!
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The Core is high-tech Hollywood hokum at its finest; smarter than Armageddon and equally extreme. It's scientifically ridiculous, naturally, but this variant of Fantastic Voyage at least tries to be credible as it plunges deep into the Earth's inner core, where a formulaic team of experts pilot an earth-boring ship to jump-start the planet's spinning molten interior, now stalled by a military secret that could seal the fate of all humankind. It's a geophysicist's daydream, which only a fine ensemble cast could rescue from absurdity, and director Jon Amiel (Entrapment, Copycat) draws excellent work (and plenty of humorous interplay) from Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Delroy Lindo and a host of memorable supporting players, especially DJ Qualls as the world's greatest cyber-nerd. With enough digital FX disasters to satisfy anyone's apocalyptic fantasies, this is a popcorn thriller with all the bells and whistles that its genre demands. Sit back, pump up the volume and enjoy the dazzling ride. --Jeff Shannon
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When 17 people suddenly drop dead within a 10-block radius in Boston, geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) and French atomic weapons expert Dr. Serge Leveque (Tcheky Karyo) are summoned by General Thomas Purcell (Richard Jenkins) to Washington, D.C., to find out if the deaths are due to a covert enemy electromagnetic weapon. When it's determined that this was not an act of war, the government breathes a sigh of relief and the scientists are dismissed.
But Keyes can't let go of the deaths so easily, and when other bizarre "natural" phenomena begin occurring worldwide, he suspects that earth's electromagnetic field has been comprised. Working with his team at the University of Illinois, Keyes discovers that mystery behind the strange occurrences is more frightening than any act of war. For reasons unknown, the earth's inner core has stopped rotating, causing the planet's electromagnetic field to rapidly deteriorate. At the same time, life as we know it begins deteriorating as well, causing birds to lose their ability to navigate, whales to erratically change their migration patterns and people with pacemakers to suddenly drop dead. Even the famed Northern Lights appear in the night sky a hundred times brighter and farther south than ever before.
And things will only get worse. As the electromagnetic field, which shields the earth from solar radiation, slowly collapses, airplanes will start falling from the sky, and everything electronic will be fried. Static discharge in the atmosphere will create "super-storms" with hundreds of lighting 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 at first is unbelieving, but soon arrives at the same horrifying conclusion. Soon the two men, along with atomic weapons expert Leveque, are whisked away by federal agents to the Utah desert to meet Dr. Ed "Braz" Brazzelton (Delroy Lindo), a brilliant scientist who has been working for the last twenty years on a craft that can travel deep into the earth some day. But with no more time to research, and with money suddenly no object, the U.S. government and the United Nations rally together to create a team of world experts that will build a fully functional subterranean craft -- immediately. And, because Keyes and his colleagues are scientists, not pilots, astronauts Major Rebecca "Beck" Childs (Hillary Swank) and Colonel Robert Iverson (Bruce Greenwood) are recruited to become the world's fist "terranauts."
With their hastily built ship and their highly skilled, wildly diverse team of professionals to man it, the government and the world make the ultimate leap of faith ... not into outer space but into inner space, journeying into unknown regions of the earth in the hopes of detonating a nuclear device which they hope will reactivate the core and restore balance to the planet.
Watching over the ship and crew on the earth's surface is Mission Control, led by NASA Control Chief Talma "Stick" Stickley (Alfre Woodard). With her is a room full of scientific experts and government officials, and unfortunately, an eccentric young genius called Rat (D.J. Qualls). Formerly convicted of computer fraud, Rat is there to hack into the Internet to suppress information about the situation in order to prevent widespread panic. Secretly, however, he is also feeding Keyes covert data about something geophysicist Zimsky is hiding from the crew, something that the U.S. government is privy to and that could determine the entire team's fate.
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