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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: For all its predictability and cornball heroics, this adventure is as sleek and efficient as its inner-spacecraft. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The Core is such a feat of go-for-broke heroism and you-gotta-be -kiddin'-me ridiculousness that it almost qualifies as a feel-good diversion -- with just a quarter of the runaway jingoism of your average disaster extravaganza. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [I]t's not campy enough to be consistently entertaining, and it's certainly not exciting or smart enough to be a first-rate sci-fi epic like a Deep Impact. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Scientists may shudder, but at least some good actors are getting work. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Good science fiction awakens a sense of awe, and even mediocre sci-fi sometimes manages wonder. But The Core does neither. Read more
Hap Erstein, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Preposterous? Absolutely, but director Jon Amiel seems to be in on the joke, pausing at regular intervals to laugh at the disaster genre in which he is engaged, then resuming the suspense and reeling us back in again. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: If The Core finally has to be classified as a mess, it is an enjoyable one if you're in a throwback mood. After all, a film that comes up with a rare metal called Unobtainium can't be dismissed out of hand. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: When taken as an old-fashioned adventure with a comic-book plot, The Core works well. But at 130 minutes it wears out its welcome, and like Earth's balky core, it sputters and stalls. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's a schlockier Armageddon crossed with Fantastic Voyage, minus the fun. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The only pressing burden in this deep interior world is the question: What in or on Earth is a cast this good doing in a movie this ridiculous? Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: An enjoyable, forgettable film. Read more
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A. Weekly: The first half-hour of The Core is hip enough to its own moribund formula that for a brief, shining moment, there's hope the film will actually be a goofy gas instead of the effects-bound lump it becomes. Read more
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Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: The brazen silliness of The Core is becalming and inauthentic, like taking a bath in nondairy coffee creamer. The Earth core's inability to turn is mirrored in the cast's inability to give the picture any spin. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: So howlingly awful that it has unwittingly found a place in that elite group of films that can claim to be 'so bad they're good.' Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I have such an unreasonable affection for this movie, indeed, that it is only by slapping myself alongside the head and drinking black coffee that I can restrain myself from recommending it. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The Core works because the characters are idiosyncratic enough to seem authentic but not so zany that they seem contrived. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: There's a marked absence of panic in The Core. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Jules Verne this isn't, but it makes for fairly diverting escapist fare. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: More palatable than most pictures of its ilk due to its keen awareness of its own preposterousness, a self-knowledge exuberantly expressed by a mostly live-wire cast. Read more
Ed Park, Village Voice: Undigestible fusion of worst-case earth science and leaden pacing. Read more