Too much of everything

Good concept, poorly executed.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Just heard a program on the radio about the worst movies ever made (gems like The Room and Plan 9 among them) and it motivated me to come here and highly recommend Deep Core as a must-watch bad movie. Deep core features all of the core elements of a classic sci-fi failure: Laughable dialogue, cheesy CGI, weak plot and terrible acting (even Bruce McGill's - though he's a pretty good character actor otherwise). All of this combines to make an awesomely bad experience. It's also worth noting that Deep Core features the absolute BEST human-lava-melt scene in cinematic history - surely never to be outdone.Rent this and laughs will ensue.

The only saving grace (grimace) is that it came before The Core. With much the same basic plot and science but with more "famous" actors and a bigger budget. Similarities: Laser Gatling gun performing the drilling. The core spinning and trying to start/stop it with nuclear bombs, Hero is a scientist, Crew are scientists and mechanics, (Delroy Lindo and Will Wheaton), practically, and they go to the core by digging a hole with: a self-propelled vehicle. The Core was much better done with better special effects while Depp Core looked like it was made on a long weekend in the American southwest. The flames of the oil well, being put out during the beginning of the movie, keep flaming even after it is supposedly put out. This seems to be a premonition of how their endeavors become in making a movie, and saving mankind: another fizzle.

Brian Goodman (Craig Sheffer) is a scientist specialized in drilling operations. He aborts a dangerous perforation, leaded by Alan Morrisey (Harry Van Gorkun) and Darryl Simmons (James Russo) and destroys the whole project and facilities. A few years later, he is working with his friends Sam Dalton (Bruce McGill) and Rodney Bedecker (Wil Wheaton, from Star Trek), when he detects an abnormal movement of the tectonic plates, provoked by Alan's new enterprise. Brian meets Alan, and together with Allison Saunders (Terry Farrel), a highly graduated scientist from MIT, try to stop the movement of underground layers of Earth. This flick is awful: very predictable and full of clichés. The characters are badly developed, the story is horrible and it does not work. The best part is the ironical dialog of a married couple, asking for information in a road bar. The Brazilian distributors called it `Catastrophe', maybe a hint regarding the terrible quality of this film. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): `Catástrofe' (`Catastrophe')

The movie kept me captivated but only out of morbid curiosity. It was simply the worst movie I have ever had the misfortune of watching. The movie oozed badness in every bad scene with every bad line. It is like watching a 90 minute car accident.