Critic Reviews
48
Metascore
Mixed or Average
positive
12(38%)
mixed
14(44%)
negative
6(19%)
Showing 32 Critic Reviews
83
The surprise is that it's one of the most exciting and enjoyable disaster epics to come out of Hollywood in some time.
80
It's the feel-good movie of the year.
80
A two-hour pleasure cruise.
75
The Core is unabashed Hollywood spectacle, but with a cast of up-from-indie actors that makes the cataclysmic kitsch all the more fun to behold.
75
The real core of The Core is the beautiful friendship between a highly emotive Eckhart and the sacrificial Karyo. Their bond is the best thing to happen to Franco-American relations since SpaghettiOs.
75
It's a straight-ahead adventure with the usual number of thrills, but with the added virtue of being smarter and more sober than one might expect.
70
Sometimes the laughs here seem unintentional, but most giggles are properly earned, and the movie's fun and exciting if you can accept its inherent camp factor.
70
With the exception of Hilary Swank, whose earnestness spoils the fun, a stellar cast seems in on the joke.
67
With a less popcorn-friendly cast and some cheesy special effects, this is a surprisingly engaging, sometimes foolish but often roughly intelligent film.
63
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."
