Review of The Core (2003) by Nicole T — 03 Jun 2012
This is kind of a bad movie. It suffer from genera confusion more than anything. The drama part is over-wrought, the premise is clear but so far beyond reality that it becomes campy (more on that as a positive point...), and lastly the "disaster" part could have been so much better if only the writers had cracked open an earth science book.
Let's set the right frame for this: It's a Godzilla movie (the orignal foreign men-in-rubber-suits variety). Here the monsters are forces of nature, and the hero team must battle them as fiercly as they would mechagodzilla.
Under those auspices the movie is a classic- except the forced drama ruin it. There is no need to blatantly drag along character development in a monster movie (to qualify as sci-fi you actually need *plausible* science), especially when you turn the movie into a slasher style flick in the last 10 minutes and kill the cast off.
It's fun if you can appreciate the camp and cheese, and appreciate the humor in the imagination of events so far-fetched that they take on a reality of their own.
This review of The Core (2003) was written by Nicole T on 03 Jun 2012.
The Core has generally received mixed reviews.
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