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83The surprise is that it's one of the most exciting and enjoyable disaster epics to come out of Hollywood in some time.
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80It's the feel-good movie of the year.
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80A two-hour pleasure cruise.
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75The Core is unabashed Hollywood spectacle, but with a cast of up-from-indie actors that makes the cataclysmic kitsch all the more fun to behold.
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75It's a straight-ahead adventure with the usual number of thrills, but with the added virtue of being smarter and more sober than one might expect.
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75The real core of The Core is the beautiful friendship between a highly emotive Eckhart and the sacrificial Karyo. Their bond is the best thing to happen to Franco-American relations since SpaghettiOs.
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70With the exception of Hilary Swank, whose earnestness spoils the fun, a stellar cast seems in on the joke.
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70Sometimes the laughs here seem unintentional, but most giggles are properly earned, and the movie's fun and exciting if you can accept its inherent camp factor.
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67With a less popcorn-friendly cast and some cheesy special effects, this is a surprisingly engaging, sometimes foolish but often roughly intelligent film.
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63I have such an unreasonable affection for this movie, indeed, that it is only by slapping myself alongside the head and drinking black coffee that I can restrain myself from recommending it.
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63No one's going to confuse The Core with art -- or even a good film -- but it's 25 minutes longer than "The Hours" and I had at least 25 times as much fun.
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63So howlingly awful that it has unwittingly found a place in that elite group of films that can claim to be "so bad they're good."
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60The similarities between this film and Michael Bay's overblown "Armageddon"are too numerous to ignore; the crucial difference is that this one is actually pretty good.
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60Decent in its special effects and has the advantage of having Hilary Swank and Aaron Eckhart in it.
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60More palatable than most pictures of its ilk due to its keen awareness of its own preposterousness, a self-knowledge exuberantly expressed by a mostly live-wire cast.
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60The talented cast--manages to rescue the movie as well as the earth.
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50The Core -- with its by-the-numbers plot and performances -- isn't offensive, just unblushingly tacky and derivative.
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50Elaborate misfire, which misuses an unusually good cast.
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50In dashing Indiana Jones style, Eckhart gets to be a hero.
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50The real obstacle here is a lack of filmmaking imagination.
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50The pacing is brisk-something wacky happens every couple of minutes, the editing crisp and the effects promising. Then disaster strikes: the first act gives way to the relative witlessness of the second and third.
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50It's a schlockier ''Armageddon'' crossed with ''Fantastic Voyage,'' minus the fun.
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50There's a refreshing surefootedness in the way Amiel, his screenwriters Cooper Layne and John Rogers, and most of his actors recognize how preposterous the idea of traveling to the center of the earth in a souped-up Rototiller really is.
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50If The Core finally has to be classified as a mess, it is an enjoyable one if you're in a throwback mood. After all, a film that comes up with a rare metal called Unobtainium can't be dismissed out of hand.
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40It’s just not quite bad enough to be considered good, although Stanley Tucci’s hairpiece comes awfully close.
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40The first half-hour of The Core is hip enough to its own moribund formula that for a brief, shining moment, there's hope the film will actually be a goofy gas instead of the effects-bound lump it becomes.
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38Only Stanley Tucci seems aware of the drop-dead stupidity of the plot, and acts up a storm of high camp as the narcissistic scientist.
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38I've just seen The Core, and I have a piece of advice for Hilary Swank: Don't quit your night job.
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30This sloppily made, poky, extra cheesy adventure is virtually a remake of "Armageddon."
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25The only pressing burden in this deep interior world is the question: What in or on Earth is a cast this good doing in a movie this ridiculous?
User score distribution:
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Mixed: 2 out of 55
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Negative: 29 out of 55
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The label of "science fiction" doesn't mean you get to do whatever you want and expect audiences to believe it.
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James0This movie is the worst piece of shit I have ever seen in my life! i nearly fell asleep!
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HamishS.0