K-19: The Widowmaker
6.5
Overview
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Reviews (2)
tmdb28039023 (Rated: 6)
K-19: The Widowmaker is the Russian answer to Run Silent, Run Deep/Crimson Tide, except that it's about as Russian as Michael Apted’s Gorky Park – still, not bad company to be in at all.
Like Gorky Park, which had two late greats in Will Hurt and Brian Dennehy, K-19 gravitates around two solid p...
CinemaSerf (Rated: 6)
A rather clunky cold-war maritime thriller that manages to mix plausible science with shallow propaganda in a rather cack-handed fashion - and a (mis)casting that gives the film the same sinking feeling that the submarine must have felt when it first put to sea. It's a synch that the 2-kopeck system...
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