The Core (2003) - Movie Review

These intrepid souls will travel to the Earth's core to save the planet!

The first time I saw Aaron Eckhart (Battle: Los Angeles), I saw him play the role of Harvey Dent/2 Face in Christopher Nolan's, The Dark Knight (2008), and I have to admit that I was impressed... Not just with the caliber of movie, but also with his performance in the movie as well!

Since then though, he has continued to give pretty solid performances in just about everything that I have seen him in, the only problem is that the movies that he has done, just have not quite cut the mustard...

Now you might be wondering why I am mentioning this, well... That is because, The Core (2003), is another one of those movies that he has done, that was good... But not quite good enough... But we will get in to that in a minute.

The movie poster for: The Core (2003). 

Written by: Cooper Layne (The Fog) & John Rogers (Transformers), Directed by: Jon Amiel (Copycat). Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank (Terror In The Family), Delroy Lindo (The Big Bang), Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games), DJ Qualls (Z Nation), Richard Jenkins (The Cabin In The Woods), Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek), Tchéky Karyo (Vampire Party) & Alfre Woodard (Star Trek: First Contact).

"Why do you get dibs on being the hero?"

- Dr. Josh Keyes (A quote from the movie: The Core.)

This movie tells the story of how when planet Earth stops it's rotation, mankind becomes doomed due to the effects of the Earth no longer rotating... Discovering this is Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart), a brilliant college professor, who ends up taking his findings to the arrogant, yet brilliant Dr. Conrad Zimsky (Stanley Tucci)... Of course the good Doctor dismisses Keyes findings, that is of course until he discovers something from his own work...

Now along with the help of General Thomas Purcell (Richard Jenkins), Commander Robert Iverson (Bruce Greenwood), Major Rebecca Childs (Hilary Swank) and a team of scientists, Dr. Keyes will lead a team of scientists in a ship designed by Dr. Ed Brazzleton (Delroy Lindo) to the Earth's core in the hopes of restarting the Earth's rotation, and save humanity!

This team will prepare for the mission of a life time, as they try to save humanity!

In the end, this movie had great special effects, and a great story line, but the ending... While having some good elements, also kind of really sucked!

What I mean by this, is that I don't know if it was the writing that failed or the actors, but one right after the other, everybody just began to suck! Down to cliche's being spouted left and right, Aaron Eckhart taking a scene out of early 90s teen comedies, and Hilary Swank seeming to all of a sudden becoming dazed and confused through most of the rest of the movie... Well it just made the ending suck!

But the rest of the movie is really quite good, and worth checking out!

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