This is a movie filled with actors you immediately recognize, Hilary Swank, Alfre Woodard, and Stanley Tucci, and then there are the actors you recognize but just don't have names to go with the faces: Aaron Eckhart, Bruce Greenwood, Delroy Lindo, Ray Galletti, Tcheky Karyo, DJ Qualls and Richard Jenkins. You have then a B- cast who should be recognized as an A cast because they are all such good actors that you are almost willing to watch this throwback 1950s really bad "science" fiction movie. Think of a mashup of 1959's Journey to the Center of the Earth with Pat Boone and Gertrude the Duck with It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955) with Kenneth Tobey and Harry Lauter (who deserved better films). This film is actually worse than you could ever expect with every cliché line and trope gathered together for an epically bad disaster movie. Don't be surprised if you find yourself rooting for the Earth's core to just stop and destroy the planet. The "special" effects are so bad you can tell that matchbox cars are falling into San Francisco Bay as the Golden Gate Bridge collapses. I did enjoy seeing Rome destroyed. The only thing missing from this film is Godzilla appearing to save the planet. I suggest you watch the film with foam beer cans to throw at your TV screen.
