The Core (2003)
Country: US/GER/CAN/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 135m
Director: Jon Amiel
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Bruce Greenwood, Tchéky Karyo, Delroy Lindo
Synopsis:
Scientists race to find a solution when the Earth's outer core stops rotating, causing the planet's electro-magnetic field to stall.
Review:
We thought it was preposterous when Doug McClure and Peter Cushing attempted it, but this far more S-F version of intra-planetary travel is scarcely more believable! It all hinges on a new metal dubbed 'unobtainium', whose crucial property is that it becomes stronger under high temperatures and pressures (though it is still not satisfactorily explained why they do not all simply cook inside the resulting vessel). Never mind, it is less irritatingly macho than Armageddon (quite the opposite), and less 'saggy in the middle' than The Day After Tomorrow. On the down side, it cannot help assaying the kind of apocalyptic effects work of such films, and given the destruction of Rome sequence needn't have bothered.
Country: US/GER/CAN/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 135m
Director: Jon Amiel
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Bruce Greenwood, Tchéky Karyo, Delroy Lindo
Synopsis:
Scientists race to find a solution when the Earth's outer core stops rotating, causing the planet's electro-magnetic field to stall.
Review:
We thought it was preposterous when Doug McClure and Peter Cushing attempted it, but this far more S-F version of intra-planetary travel is scarcely more believable! It all hinges on a new metal dubbed 'unobtainium', whose crucial property is that it becomes stronger under high temperatures and pressures (though it is still not satisfactorily explained why they do not all simply cook inside the resulting vessel). Never mind, it is less irritatingly macho than Armageddon (quite the opposite), and less 'saggy in the middle' than The Day After Tomorrow. On the down side, it cannot help assaying the kind of apocalyptic effects work of such films, and given the destruction of Rome sequence needn't have bothered.
Country: US/GER/CAN/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 135m
Director: Jon Amiel
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Bruce Greenwood, Tchéky Karyo, Delroy Lindo
Synopsis:
Scientists race to find a solution when the Earth's outer core stops rotating, causing the planet's electro-magnetic field to stall.
Review:
We thought it was preposterous when Doug McClure and Peter Cushing attempted it, but this far more S-F version of intra-planetary travel is scarcely more believable! It all hinges on a new metal dubbed 'unobtainium', whose crucial property is that it becomes stronger under high temperatures and pressures (though it is still not satisfactorily explained why they do not all simply cook inside the resulting vessel). Never mind, it is less irritatingly macho than Armageddon (quite the opposite), and less 'saggy in the middle' than The Day After Tomorrow. On the down side, it cannot help assaying the kind of apocalyptic effects work of such films, and given the destruction of Rome sequence needn't have bothered.