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Three cheers to disaster movies
DOWNWARD BOUND: The terranauts get ready for the earth's core.
The Core (ENGLISH)
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo
Dir: Jon Amiel
JUST WHEN you thought they did not make movies like this anymore, comes The Core - so deliciously campy that you would want to whoop for joy. You want to rub your hands with glee and chuckle as the experts talk of a new metal called - get a load of this - Unobtainium!
And when they say stuff like "Three months, and we are back in the Stone Age... A year and we're fried," with straight faces; you want to shake the filmmakers' hand for being kind enough to give this goofy masala disaster film.
The story is pretty simple - the earth has stopped spinning (yeah that's it) and all sorts of awful things are happening to the earth's electromagnetic field. People with pacemakers drop dead, pigeons lose their navigation skills and crash into traffic at Trafalgar Square, in Rome the Colosseum is reduced to rubble in an electric storm and the Golden Gate collapses.
Now the plan to set the earth spinning again is to go to the core and drop lots of bombs to kick-start the earth. The terranauts include Dr Edward Brazleton who creates the ship (which incidentally looks like a long metallic worm) made of Unobtainium, Josh Keyes, the geophysicist who figures out what went wrong and Maj Rebecca Child who pilots the ship.
There is an ace hacker ("You want me to hack the planet?" nudge, nudge, wink, wink) Rat (he needs an unlimited supply of Xena tapes to help him think) who is doing all sorts of things up on earth with much green numbers. Director Jon Amiel who helmed the super serious Copycat has decided to let his hair down and the cast follow suit with the Oscar winning Hilary Swank as a becoming Rebecca Child makes cow eyes at the harried Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart).
Delroy Lindo has a blast as mad scientist Brazleton while DJ Qualls with his long, long nose plays Rat. The effects going with the tone of the film are great fun. Only wish the script had made some provisions for some huge, ugly monster at the core of the earth - then our cup of joy would surely have runneth over.
MINI ANTHIKAD-CHHIBBER
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