The Core

  • Science Fiction
  • Adventure
  • Thriller
3/28/2003
136
PG-13

The only way out is in.

Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the world's most gifted scientists, travel into the earth's core. Their mission: detonate a device that will reactivate the core.

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Revenue:
$74,208,267
Budget:
$60,000,000

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  • RalphRahal

    The Core might not win any awards for scientific accuracy, and sure, the premise alone invites every kind of eye-roll, but what it does deliver is something weve been losing fast in todays cinematic landscape: original storytelling that doesn't try to go viral or squeeze itself into a franchise mold. Its from that 2000 to 2010 cultural crossroads, before everything became about metrics and trend-chasing. This was when movies still dared to be weird, flawed, ambitious, and most importantly, human. It has all the hallmarks of that era where studios were still funding original scripts, even if they were risky. And yeah, it paid the price at the box office, but Id argue it aged better than a lot of so-called hits from its time.

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    April 24, 2025

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