K-19: The Widowmaker
It is about a real-life historical event in the past. Captain Alexi Vostrikov, a Russian naval officer, leads the first nuclear submarine- K-19
7 June 1952, Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
29 February 1928, North Kensington, London, England, UK
24 April 1953, London, England, UK
9 September 1983, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1 April 1978, Boulder, Colorado, USA
4 December 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 July 1971, New York City, New York, USA
23 April 1939, Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Almaty, Kazakhstan]
16 January 1976, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
May 07, 2010
...takes its place among a small group of undersea motion pictures. Unfortunately, it takes its place at the end of the line.December 06, 2004
K-19 makes an American audience care about Communists trapped between a rock and a hard place deep beneath the sea.July 23, 2002
Bigelow hits all her marks and more within the narrow parameters.January 07, 2004
Manages to find another way to become a big-budget Hollywood summer production that shamelessly panders to the lowest common denominator.July 19, 2002
More intellectually scary than dramatically involving.July 25, 2002
What could have been a movie packed with historical significance and nail-gnawing underwater tension ends up little more than a lumbering public-service announcement for the human spirit.July 19, 2002
Gets stuck in a no man's land between the real and the fictional.July 22, 2002
[A] really strong work from start to finish.February 03, 2006
A brutally effective, brilliantly constructed dramatic thriller.January 06, 2004
... A taut, skillfully-executed thriller anchored by two rock-solid leading men.March 05, 2013
Why did movie moguls think that this was the right moment for a tale of unflinching loyalty to the Soviet Union?May 19, 2004
Kathryn Bigelow's K-19 sinks to a watery grave.