The Core

This 2003 Action-adventure-sci-fi starred the award winning Aaron Eckhart and two (2) time Oscar winner, Hilary Swank and grossed $74 million USD. Written by Cooper Lane and John Rogers and Directed by English John Amiel this film was an unbelievably thrilling ride (no pun intended). With tremendous use of special effects and loads of extras this film managed to make the apocalypse quite a reality.

Disasters may appear in our lives but once you’ve got courage, determination and faith, anything is possible. Our main actors, a crew of six (6) head down to the core of the earth to activate a nuclear device that will help the Earth’s core to spin again. The model turned actor DJ Qualls whom you may remember from ‘Road Trip’ and English Delroy Lindo who has acted in scores of memorable films like ‘Up’, ‘The Cider House Rules’ and ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’ to name a few, also portray brilliant acting abilities.

I quite also enjoyed the portrayals of the illustrious Alfre Woodard who played the concerned yet sturdy ‘Stickley’ and ‘Serge’ played by Turkish-born French-bred actor Tcheky Karyo whose task was most emotive due to his dedication and love for his family.

There was angst, wonder and the love of voyaging into the unknown wrapped into a neat 135 minutes. I found the opening scene in the film to be luminous with a man tapping his watch and saying, “It stopped”, before numerous odd and catastrophic events were set in motion.