The Core (2003, PG-13)

If I could sum up the Core in one sentence, it would be this: the Core is not as good as it promised, despite a good premise, and the special effects aren't dazzling at all. 

I might want to include that hundreds of scientists voted the Core as the worst science-fiction film of all time, because it has fake science in it.  I'm no scientists, so I can't tell which science stuff in this movie was fake and what was real.

It's loosely based off the novel Core by Paul Preuss.

The film stars Aaron Eckhart as Dr. Josh Keyes, an expert on geology.  Everything on Planet Earth is going fine, until birds start dropping from the sky and natural disasters occur.  Keyes and Dr. Conrad Zimsky (Stanley Tucci) come to the conclusion that the Earth's core has literally stopped rotating, leading to the collapse of the Earth's electromagnetic field.  The only way to get it rotating again is to set off nuclear charges in order to restart the core's motion.  After explaining the dire situation to the United States government, they build a mutli-compartment vessel that can bore down through the Earth.  The action starts when the crew assembles and uses the vessel, named Virgil, to bore down through the Marianas Trench. 

If you think that the Core's plot is implausible, it is.  Nevertheless, despite how implausible it is, I thought the Core had a good premise for a science-fiction movie nonetheless, no matter how far fetched it is.

Instead, we are given disappointing special-effects, so-so acting, a cliched script and so on.  There are a couple of somewhat intense scenes, but either way the Core comes off as a disappointment, though thankfully not on a colossal scale.

                                      ** ½/5