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The Core (2003)

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In the saving-the-world-from-imminent-destruction genre, "The Core" takes its place as the anti-"Armageddon": The daring rescue te [...]
— review by Todd McCarthy at Variety - 22 March 2003

A by-the-numbers, save-the-world disaster flick that somehow manages to entertain despite its bloated running time and painfully f [...]
— review by Jason Buchanan at allmovie

40
The Core is Armageddon inside the Earth. If you’ve caught the trailer, spotted the revealing poster, or even overheard a t [...]
— review by Sean O'Connell at FilmCritic

One expects moments of discomfort from a Hollywood disaster film, of course, and The Core doesn't disappoint on that front. On a n [...]
— review by Rick Kisonak at Film Threat - 1 April 2003

The only truly interesting aspect found in “The Core” is Jon Amiel’s thoughts as to what the inner parts of Earth might look like. [...]
— review by Rory L. Aronsky at Film Threat - 1 April 2003

In the new disaster flick ``The Core,'' the whole range of action happens in the opening bit. We're s [...]
— review by Wesley Morris, Globe Staff at The Boston Globe - 28 March 2003

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Hot on the heels of "Far from Heaven," which looked exactly like a 1957 melodrama, here is "The Core," which wants to be a 1957 [...]
— review by Roger Ebert at Chicago Sun-Times - 28 March 2003

In Boston, 32 people keel over when their pacemakers stop. In London, the pigeons in Trafalgar Square start auditioning for a rem [...]
— review at BBC Movies

People with pacemakers die without cause; lifeless pigeons fall into Trafalgar Square; the Colosseum implodes; the Golden Gate Bri [...]
— review by GE at Time Out

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It is often the case that an otherwise entertaining science fiction action film will be marred by one or two glaring errors which [...]
— review by Jennie Kermode at Eye for Films

This is Armageddon underground, with Josh (Aaron Eckhart), a scruffy university lecturer, in the Bruce Willis role and Beck (Hilar [...]
— review by Angus Wolfe Murray at Eye for Films

The Core movie poster

Director

Jon Amiel

Actors

Aaron Eckhart (Dr. Josh Keyes)
Christopher Shyer (Dave Perry)
Hilary Swank (Maj. Rebecca Childs)
Ray Galletti (Paul)
Delroy Lindo (Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton)
Eileen Pedde (Lynne)
Stanley Tucci (Dr. Conrad Zimsky)
DJ Qualls (Theodore Donald 'Rat' Finch)
Tom Scholte (Acker)
Richard Jenkins (Gen. Thomas Purcell)
Glenn Morshower (FBI Agent)
Anthony Harrison (FBI Agent)
Bruce Greenwood (Cmdr. Robert Iverson)
Bart Anderson (Dad)
Language: English
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Running time: 135 minutes
(2 hours 15 minutes)
Release date:
Canada: 28 March 2003
United States: 28 March 2003

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