Director: Jon Amiel | Writer: Cooper Layne, John Rogers
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Tcheky Karyo, Delroy Lindo
Five years after, someone decided to do a much crappier version of Armageddon, but this time drill straight down? Someone should have drilled straight down into their brains to see if there was anything in there, because this is one of the stupidest ideas and most pathetic disaster movies you’ll ever likely to come across. Add in terrible acting to a terrible concept and you’ve got about the poorest product a filmmaker could possibly produce. Nice work.
In a shocking turn of events, the Earth’s core of molten metal has stopped spinning, causing major atmospheric and magnetic changes that will undoubtedly kill us all. That is, unless a crack team of scientists and astronauts (now terranauts?) can lead a mission to the center of the planet to jump start our world. Getting there will be tricky, nigh impossible, but they’re willing to try, on a mission that no one on the planet can know about and which is almost definitely doomed to fail.
The Core is crap, and that’s OK for a disaster movie, we understand the genre, but being *this* bad should really be outlawed. Eckhart and Swank are a disastrous pair, with acting talent that amounts to a tablespoon in a movie that’s as solid as tissue paper. It’s bad CGI mixed with bad performances on the backdrop of a moronic story that feels make up on the spot in every scene. I’m just as much a fan of Mother Nature ferocity fun as the next moviegoer, but this is a bit much.
My rating: ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆