Core

Pros: DJ Qualls
Cons: everything else

I have a bone to pick with most of the disaster films on the market.  My point of contention is how they take a disaster of global proportions that probably ends millions - if not billions - of lives, and boil it all down to the audience rooting for ...

Pros: Responsible use of CGI. Light humor. Intriguing scenario.
Cons: B-grade actors. Plot has gaps.

With all the trends and fads in movies and literature that come and go, there has always been one plotline that never seems to get old: the end of the world. Most seem to center on some external catastrophe, such as an alien invasion, per Independence ...

Pros: DJ Qualls is pretty funny
Cons: acting very disappointing, visual effects weren't anything special to look at, at all

While The Core certainly didn‘t exactly achieve must-see movie status, it was alright on its own merits. I probably wouldn’t have seen it myself it if weren’t for my parents that wanted to go see it, and since family time like that com ...

Pros: mildly entertaining
Cons: too unbelievable

The unexpected is just about the only thing that really frightens me, beyond spiders that is. Under normal circumstances you can con your way out of anything, given the proper amount of information and time. But sudden things like meteors falling ...

Pros: Latest and greatest special effects.
Cons: Not a lot of new ground covered.

The space shuttle crash lands in downtown L.A., the pigeons of London’s Piccadilly Circus kamikaze t ...

Pros: Great, feel-good movie w/great special effects. Stellar acting. Fairly true-to-life science. Witty.
Cons: None that I could see, but some criticized the science used.

Introduction When I explained the premise, they groaned. But as soon as they saw the opening scene, they were hooked! Such was the typical routine, whilst showing director John Amiel's $60 million sci-fi flick, The Core, ...

Pros: Stanley Tucci, Hilary Swank, accidental humor, suitable for pre-teens despite PG-13 rating
Cons: Silly, implausible, funny in ways I'm sure the writer and director never intended

I refuse to call The Core a bad movie. If the world classifies it as a "B" movie, it's the best "B" movie I've ever seen. It's entertaining, it's visually appealing, and if you can forget everything you know about science and technology,...

Pros: action, special effects, interesting concepts, acting
Cons: horrible ending, bad logic

"The Core" had the potential to be a great disaster film; which in some ways it is, but it lacks the necessary moral lesson movies like these need to teach. This is where it loses out to "Armageddon," and whenever you hear 'losing out to "Armageddon,"'...

Pros: Some wit, likable-enough characters, reasonably tense moments at times.
Cons: Average at best, just once I'd love stars to FAIL to save the world.

Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Bruce Greenwood, Delroy Lindo, DJ Qualls Introduction If any one of the disasters portrayed in movies actually hit our planet, I wonder how we'd all react. I wonder ...

Pros: Good characters, fair plot
Cons: A little silly at times, few farfetched things

Alright, I'll admit it I love the idea of bringing in the world's top scientists, you know the ones like the geophysicist in this film, who teach and do research and get no fame and little money for what they do, and let them save the world. Cause I am on ...

Pros: Stanley Tucci, Delroy Lindo; fairly original concept
Cons: Most of the rest of the film

Upon my arrival in Lake County, Illinois on the night before epinions' recent meet and greet, the love of my life offered to watch "The Core" with me after I asked if it was any good. I heartily agreed and sat through it for the first time. We then ...

Pros: A movie all the mid-size Peorias of the world are bound to love I'm sure
Cons: It's just another bland day at the movie-making office

The Core's sympathies and aesthetics align squarely with all those disaster with an exclamation point films of the late 60s to late '70s, minus Ethel Merman. It begins rousingly as pacemakers stop suddenly, birds drop out of the sky, a routine space...

Pros: special effects
Cons: acting in the beginning

The earth is divided up into 3 layers. They are the crust, the mantle, and the core. As you may have guessed from the title of the movie, it is the core that is the central focus of the movie. The core has an outer core and an inner core. As long as the ...

Pros: A few spots of decent special effects.
Cons: Bad acting. Bad effects. Lousy score. Formulaic, extremely predictable plot.

Now that I'm home from viewing "The Core", I can simply and succinctly offer my advice to those who haven't seen it yet in one word: DON'T. But, since a good review would have to have some clarification and justification for that bit of advice, I'll go a...

Pros: Strong cast of actors for this.
Cons: needed to get kinks ironed out.

Okay I am going to have to comment on this movie because it deals with similar subject matters of my own science fiction works. The Core is a science fiction film done by the team who wrote The Fog (2006.) I've seen this one on FX and one of those ...