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The core

Threat advisory: Elevated - Significant risk of entertaining activities

Movie propaganda

The only way out is in.

Geophysicist Doctor Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) 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 in a subterranean craft piloted by "terranauts" Major Rebecca "Beck" Childs (Hilary Swank) and Colonel Robert Iverson (Bruce Greenwood). Their mission: detonate a device that will reactivate the core.

Persons of interest

Aaron Eckhart .... Doctor Joshua "Josh" Keyes
Hilary Swank .... Major Rebecca "Beck" Childs
Stanley Tucci .... Doctor Conrad Zimsky
Delroy Lindo .... Doctor Ed "Braz" Brazzelton
Tchéky Karyo .... Doctor Serge Leveque
Richard Jenkins .... General Thomas Purcell
Alfre Woodard .... Talma Stickley
DJ Qualls .... Taz "Rat" Finch
Bruce Greenwood .... Commander Robert "Bob" Iverson
Dion Johnstone .... Flight Engineer Timmins
Christopher Shyer .... Dave Perry
Ray Galletti .... Paul
Eileen Pedde .... Lynne
Rekha Sharma .... Danni
Tom Scholte .... Acker
Cooper Layne .... Screenwriter
Eric Bernt .... Screenwriter
Sean Bailey .... Screenwriter
John Rogers .... Screenwriter
Jon Amiel .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

The core official movie site
The core QuickTime movie trailers
See also Sunshine
Studios and distributors:

Paramount Pictures

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Journey to the centre of the Earth meets Escape from Mars.

There is some really dodgy science but the special effects are pretty. If they'd spent a little less money on effects and a little more on a science advisor The core would've been a better film.

A prime number is an integer that is grater than 1 and has no integral factors but itself and 1 yet Josh uses "1, 2, 5, 7..." to crack a code sent by Rat.
Radio can now transmit through the planet while I can't even get a signal on my mobile phone through the walls of my house.
The terranaut "train" has a flat bottom even though it doesn't run on tracks.
Anyone can survive the sudden stop after a drop of 50 metres while travelling at several hundred kilometres an hour.

Treat The core as mindless colour and movement (which it is) and it'll be entertaining.

Media intelligence (DVD)

Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound
Languages: English
Picture: Widescreen (2.35:1 anamorphic)
Special features:

Commentaries: Jon Amiel
Deleted/Extended scenes: 10 with commentary by Jon Amiel
Documentaries: The making of The core
Featurettes: Visual effects

Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Closed captions, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English captions, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish