Rating: PG13
Genre:
Science Fiction
Theatrical Release: 03/28/2003(USA)
Release Date: 09/09/2003
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DS
Run Time: 134 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
An unlikely band of scientists and soldiers join forces to save the world from certain destruction in this
action-
drama. As the world is struck with a variety of inexplicable phenomena -- attacks by enormous swarms of birds in London, the explosion of the Colosseum in Rome, a potentially deadly malfunction which forces the Space Shuttle into a Los Angeles riverbed, and the simultaneous deaths of 32 people with pacemakers in Boston -- a team of top scientific minds from around the globe is assembled to determine what has thrown the world into such a frenzy.
Dr. John Keyes (
Aaron Eckhart) makes the startling discovery that the Earth's electromagnetic forces have begun to collapse, thanks to a sudden lack of movement of the molten ore at the center of the Earth. If the planet is to be saved, the core of the Earth needs a jump start, and
Keyes assembles a team to burrow to the center of the planet and bomb the insides back into action. Joining
Keyes on this dangerous, last-chance mission are the brilliant but arrogant
Conrad Zimsky (
Stanley Tucci), French arms expert
Dr. Serge Levesque (
Tchéky Karyo, maverick researcher
"Brazz" Brazzleton (
Delroy Lindo), geeky computer genius
Rat (
DJ Qualls), and two no-nonsense military types,
Commander Richard Iverson (
Bruce Greenwood) and
Major Rebecca Childs (
Hilary Swank). However, as the crew digs deeper into the Earth, the more they discover what they haven't been told about their mission and what's really been causing the worldwide chaos.
The Core was originally scheduled for release in the fall of 2002, but the movie didn't reach theaters until the spring of 2003 as special-effects experts perfected the film's more spectacular scenes.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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