60
The talented cast--manages to rescue the movie as well as the earth.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
63
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
So 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."
60
The 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.
38
Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman
I've just seen The Core, and I have a piece of advice for Hilary Swank: Don't quit your night job.
50
Baltimore Sun by Michael Sragow
The real obstacle here is a lack of filmmaking imagination.
50
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
Elaborate misfire, which misuses an unusually good cast.
63
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
I 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.
50
There'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.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
The 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.
60
More 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.