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To the Core and back: The making of The Core
Deconstruction of visual effects
Deleted and extended scenes with Director's commentary
Trailer
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen
Language: English, Czech
Subtitles: English for the hearing impaired, English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish
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This is pure fantasy. It's a fictional story based on Pseudo-science for the purpose of entertainment. Yet the biggest gripe people seem to have is that it is "unbelievable". Can you imagine the reaction if you sat watching "Lord of the Rings" and then announceed to everyone that you thought it was rubbish because it was "unbelievable". You would be ridiculed.
The special-effects are slick and very well-made. This is one of those films where the Special-Effects crew were the biggest stars. But is that such a bad thing occasionaly?
This was a highly enjoyable, tongue-in-cheek, special-effects film. Just because the storyline includes some impressive sounding Physics, doesn't mean it is trying to become a deadly serious "This could really happen" prophetic disaster film such as "Deep Imapct". It isn't. It's pure science fiction. It's suppose to be entertaining. Those people who whinge about it being "unbelievable" would do well to remember that.
So, before you can say "Hang on, there isn't enough time to do all this!" a team is assembled, a huge boring machine is built (Virgil) and scientists have devised a way to get the core rotating again by setting off a huge explosion. So off they jolly well go!
There are some huge, glaring plotholes in this movie. First and foremost, no one actually knows what the Earth's core is like, even if we could find a way to get there. Also the subject of the pressure that would be present the deeper Virgil went is simply explained away by a throwaway one-liner - "Well, at least the suits can take the pressure!" And why on Earth has A Very Important Switch been put in the Impeller Shaft?! This just seems to be an excuse to set up a character's death later on in the movie.
If you put your brain on hold and ignore all the glaring plotholes - and there are quite a few! - 'The Core' is actually quite an entertaining movie and some of the scenes are visually stunning. For example, what about the destruction of Rome, and the scene inside the geode? The emergency landing of the space shuttle is pretty impressive too!
Shame about the ending though! We're meant to believe that it took several days to get to the core, yet they make it back to the surface in just hours? And without the Impeller?! See what I mean about plotholes?
All things having been said, 'The Core' isn't a terrific movie, but it is an enjoyable one, as long as you don't want your movies to be scientifically correct. But then, movies were originally intended to take us to a land of make believe - to allow us to suspend belief for a while, and 'The Core' manages this very well!
The plot is simple enough - the Earth is about to get cooked because the outer core has stopped spinning, which.....does anyone really care why? All you need to know is that a bunch of scientists have to get the the Earths core to set off some bombs in order to save the planet. We all know that in reality it can't be done, but hey, this is SciFi, so just accept it!
The reason this film works for me is quite simply the wonderful casting. Sure, there are no Hollywood superstars here, but those cast have excellent reputations as solid actors in their own right. As with so many good films, the chemistry between the actors is what draws you in, and helps you suspend your scepticism whilst the film lasts.
The film is choc full of cliche's:
The young, talented pilot out to prove a point to the older more experienced pilot (who gets killed)
The brilliant loner scientist
The "geeky" IT expert
The "celbrity" scientist and his unknown but equally brilliant ex-partner and their loathing of eachother
The plan that goes wrong
The self sacrifice in the name of the mission
The last minute repreive
(I was disappointed there was no faithful dog that sat at home waiting for the dead pilot, but that probably would have been too much)
You get the point - but the thing here is that they all work so well in the context of the film.
The CGI was excellent for the destruction scenes, but a little bit pants for the underground stuff, which would be one criticism.
All in all, a good film which you will probably watch more than once, and certainly worth a place in the collection of anyone interested in SciFi or disaster movies.
THE CORE looks good, sounds great, has decent acting talent in it and a director with a track record for competency... Read more
Sterio-typed characters - yes
Plot - paper thin. Read more
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