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Originally Posted by Matt D
Average, but enjoyable, action nonsense
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Talking of which, I watched The Core the other day.
This is a classic Disaster Movie, "classic" in the sense that not many minutes into the film I'd identified all the archetypal characters and predicted the nature of their demise (with pretty good accuracy!)
There's one good SF in-joke where the guy who built the craft they're going to use to get to the core refers to the material it's constructed from as "unobtainium"!
Pretty effects, cliched plot and dialogue. Whiles away an hour or two - 4/10.
Phone Booth, on the other hand, was a lot more interesting, it had some predictable bits in, but also some nice ideas and is definitely well executed.
What's best about it is that IIRC it runs only to about one hour and twenty minutes which is well timed, because any longer and it would lose its impact.
Definitely worth a watch - 7.5/10