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List Price: $12.98 Our Price: $11.99 You Save: $0.99 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 28 March, 2003 DVD Release : 09 September, 2003 |
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The Core (Widescreen Edition) description Smarter than Armageddon and equally extreme, The Core is high-tech Hollywood hokum at its finest. It's scientifically ridiculous, but this variant of Fantastic Voyage at least tries to be credible as it plunges deep into the earth's inner core, where a formulaic team of experts pilot an earth-boring ship to jump-start the planet's spinning molten interior, now stalled by a military secret that could seal the fate of all humankind. It's a geophysicist's wet dream that only a fine ensemble cast could rescue from absurdity, and director Jon Amiel (Entrapment, Copycat) draws excellent work (and plenty of humorous interplay) from Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Delroy Lindo, and a host of memorable supporting players, especially The New Guy's D.J. Qualls as the world's greatest cyber-nerd. With enough digital F/X disasters to satisfy anyone's apocalyptic fantasies, this is a popcorn thriller with all the bells and whistles that its genre demands. Sit back, pump up the volume, and enjoy the dazzling ride. --Jeff Shannon |
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| Despite my one-star rating, this is an acceptable time-killer: good-natured, forgettable and not real bright. Poor Hilary Swank - from that movie where she was a boy to this in a few short years. Of course, her fall wasn't as steep as Cuba Gooding's (from Jerry Maguire to Boat Trip in one movie) or Jamie Foxx's (from Ray to Stealth in one movie). She looks like Jolene Blalock - T'Pol from TV's Star Trek Enterprise, and it wasn't until the credits that I realized it was actually Swank and not Blalock in the movie. Perhaps Swank was trying to camouflage herself.
The movie begins with a space shuttle landing in the LA River, which is interesting, but has nothing at all to do with the rest of the movie. Next thing you know, the valiant pilot is recruited to some mission to drill to the center of the earth to restart the core, which got some spyware or something and stopped working. As a result, the Coliseum and the Golden Gate Bridge get wiped out by lightning. Don't ask. The Feds then assemble a team to take a magic vehicle to the core, drop some nukes, and reboot the earth. We learn some interesting things on the way, such as: Molten rock is completely clear. There are really unconvincing sets with big fake crystals deep inside the earth. And, if you're a jerk, you'll get killed by rolling nuclear weapons and then repent. You can guess how it ends. It's not great art, but it's dumb fun on a rainy day. |
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