K-19: The Widowmaker
by Kathryn Bigelow
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Actor: Christian Camargo, Harrison Ford, Peter Stebbings, Roman Podhora, Sam SpruellDirector: Kathryn Bigelow
Brand: FORD,HARRISON
Producer: Basil Iwanyk
Producer: Brent O'Connor
Producer: Christine Whitaker
Producer: Dieter Nobbe
Producer: Edward S. Feldman
Writer: Christopher Kyle
Writer: Louis Nowra
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 138 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-12-10
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Films International
Movie Reviews of K-19: The Widowmaker
Movie Review: I really enjoyed this movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a big fan of "Hunt of Red October" and evaluate "K19-Widow Maker" equal in value.
Polenin lose command of the K-19 after a failed simulation caused by incorrect amperage components. Captain Vostrikov assumes command of the submarine. Vostrikovs discovers the reactor officer drunk and fires him. A new reactor officer arrives and Vostrikov realizes he has no active experience.
Vostrikov decides to test the crew and submarine and orders the K-19 submerged near crush depth. Crush depth is 300 m below the surface. The crew is nervous but the submarine prevails. Vostrikov orders a rapid ascent to the surface piercing through one meter thick ice cap. Polenin retreats to his cabin beliefing death is eminient. Vostrikov strategy works and he launches a test rocket. Vostrikov is cheered and recognized as a historical hero of the Soviet Union. Polenin tells him that he was lucky.
A reactor coolant leak starts a core melt down. The critical temperature is 1000 degrees and then a thermo nuclear chain reaction starts with the force of the Hiroshima bomb. 30 tons of drinking water is rerouted too the reactor; four sets of men expose themselves to fatal levels of radiation to weld pipes to the damaged coolent injection component. The temperature starts to drop.
Polenin protects Vostrikov from an insurrection.
The weld does not hold. The reactor officer enters the reactor and begins to weld the component. Vostrikov declares that tensions between East and West are strong and they must not allow an explosion. An American destroyer offers assistence, but offer is denied. Radiation levels on the submarine are rising. The men move to the surface of the submarine, in shifts. Vostrikov receives a voluntary consent from the men to move the submarine deeper. The reactor coolant breach is fixed. The submarine surfaces and another Russian sub arrives. Vostrikov is acquitted of all charges by Command but does not Captain another submarine. 20 years later the men of the K-19 gather and provide a toast to their fallen comrades.
Summary of K-19: The Widowmaker
During the Cold War, an poorly prepared Soviet submarine goes on its maiden voyage and the crew must work to prevent a nuclear disaster.Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 28-MAR-2006
Media Type: DVD
Based on an incident that was officially suppressed for 28 years, K-19: The Widowmaker is a fine addition to the "sub-genre" of submarine thrillers. The first major American film about Russian cold war heroes, it re-creates the nightmare endured in 1961 by the crew of the Soviet nuclear submarine K-19, when an exposed reactor core nearly resulted in a nuclear catastrophe. Several crewmen died, and K-19's captain (played by Harrison Ford) had to assert his command when near-mutiny favored his executive officer (Liam Neeson). This escalating tension gives the film its potent dramatic thrust, and both Ford and Neeson deliver intense performances while director Kathryn Bigelow (Near Dark, Strange Days) ably controls a sub full of seething testosterone. It's not as viscerally thrilling as the classic Das Boot or U-571, and some K-19 survivors protested the inclusion of inauthentic drinking scenes, but the movie benefits from grand-scale production values, seamless computer graphics, and a compelling real-life twist. --Jeff Shannon
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