Review of The Core (2003) by Sharyn H — 23 Mar 2009
I was hoping that this movie would end in a similar fashion to the movie Sunshine: the crew knowing that they would not make it back to the surface of the Earth, and would continue with their mission, regardless, because there were bigger things at stake here than their own lives.
It almost got to that point - almost. Then, we have two of them returning to the surface at the last minute, in record time no less, and it completely wrecked the ending for me. I can usually set aside rationality and logic for the sake of entertainment (here be sketchy science.
..), but I just couldn't accept that Virgil machine they were travelling to the core in. I think the characters themselves summed it up when they said something along the lines of, "I didn't programme the computer to read empty space," and, "I didn't teach Virgil how to fly"; there was a lot of things about their transportation that just didn't add up, and it mildly bugged me.
Plot-wise, the movie was interesting, if implausible (I found the idea of 'terranauts' getting to the core more implausible than the concept of the core itself stopping its rotation, curiously), but I did like the characters.
This review of The Core (2003) was written by Sharyn H on 23 Mar 2009.
The Core has generally received mixed reviews.
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