Director: Jon Amiel
This horrible little action adventure film has the United States creating a weapon that stops the core of the Earth from spinning. This is going to lead to the end of the world because . . . well because that is what happens when the center of the earth stops spinning. As a solution to this pesky problem, the US government enlists a team of scientists and geologists to build a craft that can go to the center of the earth and set off nuclear explosions to get the core going again (I know it sounds like a bad Jules Verne novel).
These are the legal quandries:
1. At the beginning a Space Shuttle crashes into downtown Los Angeles. This damage isn’t covered by the Liability Convention. Just what sort of insurance is NASA toting?
2. The United States developed the weapon on the grounds of Mutually Assured Destruction. Seems to fit.
3. The guys are cruising around in a ship underground. Now, granting that the ship is made out of a material called unobtainium that ain’t remotely real, just how far down does national soveriegnty go.
4. The United States saves the world, but also destroyed part of it first. How much state responsibility is gonna apply to the destruction of Rome?
Posted by PJ Blount 