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
DVD Reviews of K-19: The Widowmaker
DVD 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.
DVD Review: Memorable For The Radiation Scenes
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a pretty solid supposed true story of a Russian submarine and its captains during the early 1960s. It's memorable, story-wise, for the radiation victims among the crew members. There are some really dramatic scenes involving that horrific event. Otherwise, it's a story of the sub's problems and the conflict between two captains.
The story starts slowly so you have to stick with it as it gets better and better as it goes on and rewarding enough to make you glad you hung in there for the whole 137 minutes.
Profanity is minor and the Russian accents are handled well by the lead actors, led by Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson and Peter Sarsgaard.
It's not a great film, but it's good and interesting enough to recommend a rental, but not something I'd watch numerous times. Those radiation scenes would be a little too grim to watch numerous times.
DVD Review: He turned himself into a hero!!
Summary: 4 Stars
Oh, No, not another Submarine movie! Well, yes. This film deals directly with the Soviet mindset (read: xenophobic), in general, and the utter lack of understanding in dealing with Atomic power, in particular.
The Soviet Union would not see the errors of their ways, until the Chernobyl disaster. On the K19, nuclear power would make this submarine the flagship of the Soviet Navy. As we see at the beginning of the film, it's Captain is deservedly frustrated with the Soviet procurement system that delivers sub-standard parts to be fitted to it's "flagship". He utters his displeasure publicly, which gets him demoted to Executive Officer, and a hardline Captain that has but one objective: To "successfully" test and evaluate the K19's abilities to function as a strategic weapon.
Add to this volatile mix a green Reactor Officer, who replaces the original Reactor Officer, after the latter is relieved of duty for drunkenness (which is to plague the Soviet Forces, as it does it's Citizens). Nothing good can come of this, and that assessment is proven right, when the Captain issues orders that at first glance, puts the boat in direct danger of foundering. The boat does well, after all, but the tension between the two Senior Officers places the rest of the K19's Officers to rally behind the XO, and rally they do, after one of the K19's reactors goes critical, because of (here we go again) shoddy workmanship.
During the crisis, the XO relinquishes command back to the Captain, and it is here, where we see the crew work as one to not only save the boat, but themselves as well. The first seven crewmen to affect repairs to the reactor are sure goners, as the levels of radiation in the reactor room are well past lethal. Repairs are successful, after the second try, and the Captain makes the difficult decision to surrender the boat to American Authorities, because he realises that to wait for help from Soviet Naval Authorities means there will likely be no one left alive to see the boat limp home. All this becomes unnecessary when another Soviet sub comes to the K19's aid!
During the Captain's Mast, those Officers who were able to testify to the actions of the Captain during this crisis all came forward to state that the Captain issued orders that saved the boat, and the men left in his care, as well as the Soviet Union, from Nuclear attack by the United States, were the worst to happen, after the disaster. For all this, he never commanded another vessel for the remainder of his career. The dedication at the end of the film gives one a sobering view of how the Soviet Machine regarded it's human component.
There are thrills and chills aplenty in this film. Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson are effective as Captain Vostrikov and the Captain-demoted-to-XO Polenin. Peter Sarsgaard plays the green Reactor Officer very well, and is quickly becoming an Actor to watch for.
There are special features of note on the DVD, such as a "making of", and three featurettes on the technical aspect of creating the K19 for the screen. While "K19, The Widowmaker" isn't the best Submarine film (that title still belongs to "Das Boot") out there, it is exceptionally entertaining.
DVD Review: great real life drama
Summary: 5 Stars
I do not understand the morons that say that the movie does not have enough drama, hey folks "wake-up" "grow-up", this is a real life movie not a fantasy movie about Spiderman. The plot is great,the scenes are shot amazingly well, my prizes to the director, the actors were great too...I certainly recommend this movie to anyone, I have watched it three times on DVD, i really enjoied the drama :-)DVD Review: Never really does get to the point. 1.2 stars.
Summary: 1 Stars
You know it's bad when the most exciting part of the movie isn't when the battles take place, but when the action breaks and the guys get to see their wives and loved ones.
Never have I sat through a war-based movie more abysmal than this one.
I was nearly sound asleep before the end.
Cover Art: D-
Characters: D
Dialogue: F
Length: F-
Overall: F
1.2 stars.
Description 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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