The Core

Director: Jon Amiel
Star Cast: Hilary Swank, Aaron Eckhart, Tchéky Karyo, Stanley Tucci, Delroy Lindo, DJ Qualls, Bruce Greenwood, Alfre Woodard, Nicole Leroux

The movie starts with some strange incidents happening all around the world like 32 people dying suddenly due to pacemaker in Boston; thousands of pigeon suddenly lose control and created havoc in London. As an analysis of all these incidents, a geophysicist professor predicts that The Earth's magnetic field is collapsing because the outer core of earth has stopped rotating due to some reasons unknown in the beginning. Since, the field is what's protecting us from deadly cosmic rays and microwave radiation from space, so life on earth will be finished in a year or may be sooner.

At the outset the movie looks goofy and there are many controversies regarding the scientific concepts used in the movie but I don’t want to comment on them as I am no expert myself. As a movie; I found it entertaining and attention grasping.

The special effects used are as good as any other sci-fi movie. I like them better in Day after Tomorrow. There was hardly any scope of emotional bonding or humor amongst the team of five (2 scientists, a weapon expert, a professor and 2 NASA astronauts) but it has been weaved in quite brilliantly during their visit to The Core. There is not much of an action; mostly graphics and special effects are used for the thrill and excitement.

They used a sonic boring device and a remarkable material "Unobtainium"- name given by the scientist to his compound made of 37 materials to construct a Ship, Virgil, for taking the team into the core. As predicted, they met with some difficulties in their journey to save the world by starting to rotate the core again by blasting some nuclear bombs in the molten metal thereby giving it energy for rotation.

I was interested and involved throughout the movie to know what’s next. The only annoying things was the director has been too kind to his characters and no suspense was lasted for long; for everything they found the solution in practically 2 min, thus, the excitement was lacking.