Good Title Bad Movie
Martin Asiner | Jersey City, NJ | 02/08/2009
(1 out of 5 stars)
"One might be excused for thinking that this version of JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH shared an ancestry with Jules Verne. It does not, nor does it claim kinship with any other recognizable film. The plot has been done before but in the James Mason version, one can see a vastly entertaining effort. Even the Brandon Fraser version had its moments. This one starts off badly and goes downhill from there. Greg Evigan is a scientist who drives a bullet shaped earth drilling machine to rescue six attractive female soldiers who were teleported by mistake to an underground world 600 kilometers under the earth's surface--not quite the center of the earth but who's counting. The earth driller was lifted bodily from Edgar Rice Burroughs' AT THE EARTH'S CORE. In Evigan's case, the earth's core looks remarkably like the Rockies. No one bothered to raise the obvious question of why an underground area the size of Montana should resemble the surface in terms of sky, brightness, flora, and fauna. The stranded ladies encounter the expected prehistoric beasts, but their collective appearances are so shoddy that the audience cares little. One of the ladies has issues with another. Evigan has issues with his ex-wife who accompanies him in the earth driller. And as far as audience connection to the cast that is it. The ending is so silly as to deserve the vaunted title of celluloid moronic. Jules Verne would turn over in his grave if he knew of this stinker."
A real stinker
Cynthia L. Walker | Knoxville, TN | 08/29/2008
(1 out of 5 stars)
"This movie was a real stinker. Poor acting, poor effects and sad excuse for a storyline. Don't waste your money unless you like pathetic movies!"
Journey to the center of nothing
Michael Cooper | Hutto TX | 08/31/2008
(1 out of 5 stars)
"This is probably the worst adaptation of the Jules Verne novel I have ever seen. This film is pathetic, nothing more. Don't waste your money on this horrible film."