2003 · sci-fi · adventure · thriller
The Core
Directed by Jon Amiel2h 16m2003
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes 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. Their mission: detonate a device that will reactivate the core.
Our read: The Core (2003) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · adventure · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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