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.
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ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
ReelViewsJames 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."
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Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger 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.
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VarietyTodd McCarthy
VarietyTodd McCarthy
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.
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.
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.
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Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
The real obstacle here is a lack of filmmaking imagination.
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Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
I've just seen The Core, and I have a piece of advice for Hilary Swank: Don't quit your night job.