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K-19: The Widowmaker
K-19: The Widowmaker Image
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Metascore
58 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 35 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.1 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 27 Ratings

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  • Summary: Inspired by a true story, the film follows the heroism of Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Ford) who, at the height of the Cold War, is ordered to take command of the nuclear missile submarine K-19 away from its original commander Captain Mikhail Polenin (Neeson). Vostrikov's mission is to quickly ready the ill-prepared sub for her maiden voyage -- no matter what the cost. (Paramount Pictures) … Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 35
  3. Negative: 2 out of 35
  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    80
    May be a bit too grim and claustrophobic to become a certifiable summer blockbuster, but it's a pulse-pounding thriller that brings one of the Cold War's darkest and deadliest episodes to the big screen.
  2. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Michael Dequina
    60
    While watchable, skews more toward the drier expectations fostered by that publication's name then the more exciting, explosive ones associated with the genre.
  3. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Anthony Lane
    30
    A long, lumbering brute of a movie, no easier to maneuver than the vessel itself. [29 July 2002, p. 92]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 19
  3. Negative: 4 out of 19
  1. Vladimir
    10
    I understand that the most of American viewers did not like this movie, because popular Hollywood tricks such as mass drinking scenes and masturbating in a latrine were cut from the movie. But still there are some people, who see and appreciate great job of producers, who has shown us almost forgotten history. It was a hard film to see, at least for me, who knows what radiation is.… Expand
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