Predictable to The Core

When there have been too many journeys into space, whither next? Answer: into the Earth. Jon Amiel's SFX epic of world destruction - ha, timeliness! - features "terranauts" dispatched to the centre of our planet, which has apparently stopped spinning and thereby threatens all life, makes the Golden Gate Bridge go into melt-down and the pigeons feel faint in Trafalgar Square.

Stanley Tucci, Hilary Swank and Aaron Eckhart are some of the lower-crust cast charged with Mission: Impossible - to kickstart the globe back into motion again with a nuclear bomb.

A lot of the world panic engendered feels like a rerun of Independence Day, but with soil. If Bill Clinton fancied himself taking wing with his US air force to repulse the Martians in the latter jeopardy drama, George W Bush could well adopt this one as his presidency's graduation piece in causing the Earth to move - magna cum laude, you might say.

The Core
Cert: cert12A