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k 19 the widowmaker | Year: 2002 Classification: Action/Adventure Directed: - Kathryn Bigelow Actors/Actresses: - Harrison Ford Nice parody but nothing more... Nice parody but nothing more... Actually I was expecting to see there Leslie Nelson instead of Harrison Ford. I know, Harrison Ford is a good actor, but Leslie is much better candidature for such parodies like Naked Gun or K-19... Because everything in K-19 is just a parody/farce...(mark the most proper word) done in a standard Hollywood style. Se yourself: Russian submariners are dancing in a squatting position; they call the submarine commander as "captain" and do many other funny things instead of performing their regular duty. Very funny! Actually I was expecting to see more interesting things such as dancing bears dressed in caps with ear-flaps and a big red star that playing on balalaika. I was expecting to see lots of drunken Russian submariners playing cards, drinking vodka and fight each with other just for fun. It's really strange that I didn't see these episodes in K-19 because this is a normal portraiture on Russian people for most of Americans. This movie was primary created for average statistical citizen from one-storied middle of America such as Cleveland or similar (nothing personal!). Course these average statistical guys will never understand all funny sides of the K-19 movie and they will sincerely believe that everything there is a TRUE. They will believe that Russian submariners handle the battle torpedo just like a firewood etc. They will believe that Russian "zampolit" can contradict to his commander and even aim him with a gun :) These guys will never understand that commander of Russian submarine is incontestable authority for everyone on board including the "zampolit "... I would not explain here all such nonsense's as shown in the movie. However I would like to say that this movie has nothing common with a real story of K-19 and its heroic crew who save the word against nuclear catastrophe. Some of these heroes have spent their lives to do that they did, and some of them are still alive and they were really hoping to see at least a particle of TRUE in the mentioned movie. They were so happy to meet Harrison Ford when he was in Russia. So this is as twice as more painful to see the suffering on their old and wrinkled faces. In any case, we know - THEY ARE REAL HEROES! Thank you for spending a time on reading of this review. A singularly impressive debut for National Geographic K19: THE WIDOWMAKER is a most impressive debut for National Geographic Feature Films, one of the movie's principal production partners. The story is based on a Cold War event kept secret for decades. It's 1961, and the Soviet's first atomic powered ballistic missile submarine, the K-19, is scheduled for an operational shakedown cruise in the North Atlantic. The USSR wants to show the United States that the latter is not the only world power with waterproof big guns, so to speak, seeing as how the U.S. Navy has put Polaris subs within missile-lobbing range of Leningrad and Moscow. Filmed in Canada and Moscow, this "Hollywood" version of the story has Captain Polenin (Liam Neeson) as commander of the K19 while it's still under construction in Murmansk. In a bad career move, he's vociferously unhappy about the quality of the boat's construction, and outspokenly suggests it's not ready for its first sea trial. Enter Captain Vostrikov (Harrison Ford), an in-law of a Politburo big shot, who takes command with Polenin as his executive officer. The submarine is duly launched, though the champagne bottle fails to break - a harbinger of bad luck, and off it goes to prove itself as the newest protector of the Motherland. At first, it looks like the operational sea trial will be a smashing triumph when the K19 successfully launches one of its three ballistic missiles. Take that, you Yankee imperialist dogs! But then, on its way under new orders to take up a patrol station off the eastern U.S. seaboard, the K19 develops a leak in its nuclear reactor's cooling system that gives a new dimension to the phrase "in hot water". Borrowing and fixing up an actual Russian sub on permanent display in Florida (only in America!) for the exterior shots, and re-creating ten submarine compartments accurate down to the smallest details for the interior camera work, the producers of K19: THE WIDOWMAKER have achieved perhaps the most authentic looking sub film since DAS BOOT. (The interior sets of the film make Sean Connery's "Red October" look like the starship Enterprise.) And, something you don't see every day, there are no female players to clutter things up with mushy stuff outside of a very brief scene where the girls left behind are kissing the sailors good-bye. Otherwise, this is all Guy Stuff spearheaded by two superb performances from Ford and Neeson. Though the former will be perceived as the actor in the leading role, Neeson is right there breathing down his neck, and an argument could be made to nominate both for an Oscar in the Leading Role category. Perhaps not since HEAT (Pacino and De Niro) have two major male stars played so powerfully well together. K19 serves to remind Americans that in the Cold War, or any war, heroism, sacrifice, honor and duty are not attributes limited to just the home team. I consider it the best major film I've seen to date for the 2002 film season. Great Movie!!! This is a great movie and is far superb to U-571. The story is exellent and just about everything is exellent. I recommend this to any submarine movie collector or just a person who likes a good story. Buy K 19 The Widowmaker at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on K 19 The Widowmaker Search with the Priority Search Engine on K 19 The Widowmaker This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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