Gee Jeff, what's your problem with phony Russian accents? It was definitely better than Pavel Checkov. Would you have preferred the movie to be entirely in Russian with subtitles? That would have been more realistic. I thought the characters were believeable and the story riveting. The reactor special effects weren't world class, but then this wasn't a special effect movie, it was a people movie. In the end, the Captain puts people ahead of The Party, and even though he paid for it, he did the right thing. The ending was touching, and the story all too close to home. Does anyone working in this country get asked to do the impossible and then not get the necessary support to do the dirty job? This is just the Russian version of Dilbert in action. This isn't the best movie I have ever seen, but I liked it.

It was a wonderful movie. It made a very great impression on me. People of the Soviet Union are depicted very realistically. They make you think of how much you would be willing to do for your country. You have to see this movie!

We went to the movie despite Jeff Vice's poor review. Actually, the previews made me dislike Ford's accent, but in the movie it played quite well. I read the National Geographic web site of the real story, and with some departures, the screen play doesn't seem too far from the truth. I liked the score; non-Russian music would not have worked. I think the themes of patriotism, heroism and duty are quite relevant today. The action was gripping and the special effects good, but I didn't think this movie was really about the special effects. The dramatic play between Ford and Neeson was excellent. I was prepared to be disappointed by this movie, but in the end was pleasantly surprized. Try it, you'll like it.

Going to see K-19: The Widowmaker is an excellent way to spend 2 hours and $8. I went to see it on opening night, and I was pleasantly surprised by how entertaining and eye- opening it was. After having seen the ads and the trailers for this movie, I thought I was going to see something cliched and predictable. I won't lie to you, this movie is predictable and cliched, especially in the first half. Then, it gets better, it starts to become the movie it should have been all along, the movie I was hoping it would be. When the submarine's reactor has a malfunction and the crew has to sacrifice themselves against exposure to radiation -- a lack of radiation suits necessary to protect themselves and choosing to follow the orders of what could be an insane captain -- and not allow themselves to surrender to the enemy, the movie begins to grow more suspensful, emotional, and harrowing. The mere sight of heroes suffering from the exposure to radiation carried more weight and substance and ellicted thought than any other sequence in a film I've seen this year.