The Core may be among the worst disaster thrillers as far as realism is concerned but the the film's cast keeps it entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2023

Bombastic and ridiculous, this bonkers action movie is a lot of fun as a throwback to science-versus-nature thrillers of the past.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 17, 2023

Although the acting is top notch, the rest of "The Core" is too cliché and bloated to be enjoyable... the bigger problem with "The Core" is that the information that it presents to audiences as legitimate science is, quite simply, bunk.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 5, 2023

Is this the most bonkers blockbuster disaster movie of all-time?

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 9, 2022

A production that... as soon as it has been consumed... is forgotten. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 28, 2020

...pervasive mediocrity...

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 5, 2015

A magical film: it never runs out of new and delightful ways to be completely inane.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Dec 23, 2012

This is a big, dumb, explosion movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

'The only truly interesting aspect found in "The Core" is Jon Amiel's thoughts as to what the inner parts of Earth might look like.'

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 31, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2005

If something isn't done soon, the earth as we know it (love that clich) will destroy itself. Who do you call? Core busters!

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 15, 2004

Should be a sci-fi screenwriter's dream; but this dream is more like one that Michael Crichton would have than Jules Verne, and there's not a breath of imagination on display

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 6, 2004

| Original Score: 68/100 | Mar 16, 2004

'Look out! It's diamonds big as Cape Cod!' No, they're large black blobs that the CGI guys clearly didn't have time to fill in with vector graphics. No need for alarm.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 8, 2004

The Core ain’t your grandma’s journey to the center of the earth.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2004

The Core is really nothing more than a special effects show, but for the most part, they aren't exactly special.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 6, 2004

A disaster film with a high calibre cast, atrocious, inane dialogue, unspectacular special effects and questionable science. But fun nonetheless.

| Original Score: 68/100 | Oct 27, 2003