The Core

Title: The Core
Genre: Action / Adventure / Science Fiction
Duration: 136 minutes
Release Date: 28th March, 2003
Date of Viewing: 16th November, 2005
Venue: Home
U.S. Box Office: $31 million
Rating: 5/5

Synopsis: For reasons unknown, the earth's inner core has stopped rotating, causing the planet's electromagnetic field to rapidly deteriorate. Instantly, life around the globe begins to change dramatically. In Boston, 32 people with pacemakers, all within a 10-block radius, suddenly drop dead. In San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge collapses, sending hundreds of people plunging to their deaths. In London's Trafalgar Square, flocks of pigeons lose their ability to navigate, flying into panicked crowds. And in Rome, as thousands of tourists watch helplessly, an electrical superstorm reduces the ancient Colosseum to rubble. Scrambling to resolve the crisis, government and military officials call upon geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) and a team of the world's most gifted scientists to travel into the earth's core in a subterranean craft piloted by terranauts Major Rebecca "Beck" Childs (Hillary Swank) and Commander Robert Iverson (Bruce Greenwood). Their mission: detonate a nuclear device that will reacativate the core and save the world from sure destruction.

My Review: For all the sci-fi freaks out there (including me) this movie is a gift for your valuable time. The story educates you to some extent about the importance of the electromagnetic field surrounding our planet without the absence of which our world would collapse. The plot-line although being superficial is just beautifully sequenced - includes the emergency-crash landing of the space shuttle, the hacking of the entire internet, the super-powerful laser beam used to beam into the core of the planet, the super-penetrating x-ray device, etc, etc.

I really donno why such movies are underrated? Maybe human thinking & understanding still needs to evolve a bit?? :P

Oh! and how can i forget to mention the hot Hillary Swank. Too gorgeous to look at!