I went to see The Core", last night. I chose the movie because it was the movie that my wife would least like to see and I wouldn't have to wait too long for it to start.
It was truly awful, almost as bad as "Maid in Mannhattan" or "How to Lose a Guys in Ten Days."
I give it one star of four possible.
The characters were not likeable, the effects weren't too great, the story was contrived and predictable. I might have enjoyed it more if I had paid matineee prices, but even then it wasn't very good.
Problems with the story included the following.
- The whole government project that caused the core problem was little more than an afterthought. It should have been an important part of the story or left out.
- it was far too easy to figure out why the strange magnetic events were occurring.
- Building the "Virgil" was way too easy, it should have been long and complicated like in "Contact."
- People should have been bursting in flames in a 9,000 degree environment.
- The space shuttle just can't land in an LA viaduct. That was just lame.
- The wierd birds in Trafalgar Square were good.
- I like the way the Golden Gate bridge and the Roman Coleseum were wrecked by atmospheric anomalies.
- I liked the hacker guy, especially as he was running a non-windows OS. Too bad the tech job he was given was totally bogus.
