The Core (2003)

This movie The Core is (2003) is one of those movies that you find in the bargain bin, don’t think that it will be any good but still buy it because of it price. The bargain bin is a kind of roulette, a game a chance and I am so grateful for participating in that game. It was actually not that bad.


This movie is about a situation when the earth’s core stops spinning. This is a great disaster since this means that the earth’s magnetic field is vanishing and will be exposed. Now a team of scientists must by some means take themselves to the earth’s core and make it spin again.


How do they do it? By taking a laser drilling submarine of course! The laser drilling submarine is made of a new material called Unobtanium, a material that gets stronger the more pressure it becomes exposed to. This is not to be confused with the Unobtanium from the movie Avatar (2009)… I think…
Anyway… The plan to restart the core is to set off a group of the world’s largest nuclear bombs at the core and let the waves created in the mantle set the core in motion.

 

The characters Dr. Josh Keyes(Aaron Eckhart) and Major Rebecca Childs(Hillary Swank) in the laser drilling submarine.

This movie is a good popcorn movie. Yeah some of the physics is totally wrong and the concept of a laser drilling submarine is weird. But it is also a very cool laser drilling submarine! The actors are god at portraying the characters and the dialog is almost never boring. And of course I shall not forget to mention the song in the credits, it’s awesome! In short the movie have kind of a dumb premise, but a really atmospheric dumb premise.

Really, if you are bored and have nothing to do, give this movie a shoot. I don’t think that it will disappoint you.