 | Studios: | Paramount Pictures |
| Release: | March 28, 2003 | |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller | |
| MPAA Rating: | PG-13 for sci-fi life/death situations and brief strong language |
Writing sci-fi with outerspace, another world, or another time as the setting has got to be easier than making the audience believe the story is taking place on earth and in the present.
The premise: a series of natural disasters has been attributed to the fact that the earth has stopped rotating. A group of people with helpful specialties have been assembled to take part in the dangerous endeavor of going to the earth's core and jumpstart the mechanism that will make the earth rotate again. The preparation for the journey is impressive. Then we get to the journey itself.
It's like watching the movie "Lost in Space". A mission gone wrong, an egocentric scientist who turns out to be some sort of villain, men dying to save the mission, and finally a brilliant plan to get out of the mess they got themselves into. They have to put in some sort of romance in there too. These are elements that are staple in commercial movies ... but their combination in this movie just didn't strike the right balance. The story suddenly strikes you as silly, and you'd have a hard time trying to ignore the ridiculous just to enjoy the movie.
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