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Dominican Rep. The Core
- Original title
- The Core
- Year
- 2003
- Running time
- 135 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Aaron Eckhart
Hilary Swank
Stanley Tucci
Delroy Lindo
Nicole Leroux
DJ Qualls
Tchéky Karyo
Bruce Greenwood
Alfre Woodard
Richard Jenkins
Rekha Sharma
Christopher Shyer
Jennifer Spence
Glenn Morshower- Anthony Harrison
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production United States-Germany;
- Genre
- Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Action | Disaster Film. End of the World
- Synopsis
- When unexplained catastrophes strike around the globe, geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) and French atomic weapons expert Dr. Sergei Leveque (Tchéky Karyo) are summoned 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 lightening strikes per square mile, and deadliest of all, microwave radiation will literally cook the planet. Terrified by his findings, Keyes seeks out of 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. Scientist Dr. Ed Brazzleton (Delroy Lindo) has developed an untested subterranean craft that they hope will be able to penetrate deep into the earth, as far as the core. Now it is up to Keyes, a team of scientists and astronauts Major Rebecca Childs (Hilary 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.
- Critics' reviews
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"A two-hour pleasure cruise"
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"'The Core' is unabashed Hollywood spectacle, but with a cast of up-from-indie actors that makes the cataclysmic kitsch all the more fun to behold."
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"So howlingly awful that it has unwittingly found a place in that elite group of films that can claim to be 'so bad they're good.'"
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"More palatable than most pictures of its ilk due to its keen awareness of its own preposterousness"
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"'The Core' isn't offensive, just unblushingly tacky and derivative."
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"Jules Verne this isn't, but it makes for fairly diverting escapist fare."
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