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Dominican Rep. K-19: The Widowmaker
11,783
Thriller. Drama
Inspired by a true story that was kept secret until the fall of communism, K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER is a tale of ordinary men who sacrifice everything for their shipmates and their country. In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, an ill-prepared Russian nuclear missile submarine embarks on its maiden voyage with near-disastrous consequences. When the sub's nuclear reactor malfunctions, Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Harrison Ford) makes some ... [+]
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"With uncommon ineptitude even by the standards of contemporary action flicks, Kyle's script submerges the inherently dramatic tale of the K-19 under a pile of clichés" | NEG |
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"Obediently follows the verities of the submarine movie and its true story origins but without the imagination needed to refresh the genre" | NEU |
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"(Director Bigelow) piles up one nerve-racking crisis after another, interspersed with moments of ethereal, almost otherworldly beauty." | POS |
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"Despite its exciting moments, the film is too long" | NEU |
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"The movie gradually works its way, with quiet intelligence and apparent conviction, until there's no turning from it. An hour in, and we're on that boat" | POS |
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"Bigelow gives this film edge, tension and something you aren't expecting: a woman's touch for teasing out the buried emotion beneath those stoic surfaces" | POS |
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"K-19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as one of the great submarine stories, but it is an engaging and exciting narrative of Man confronting the Demons of his own fear and paranoia" | POS |
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"It's a pretty good sub movie, with some pretty good performances, that, alas, somewhat disintegrates in the last half-hour." | NEU |
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"As a technical achievement, K-19 is right up there with Das Boot. Don't expect much dramatic depth, though." | POS |
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