Good facts, but boring storytelling

Rating: Null/10 (26 August 2002)

K-19: The Widowmaker is a historical account of a Russian submarine crew's struggle in the nuclear arms race. It depicts not only their patriotism, but courage and uncommon valor. It has facts not many would know to date.	The problem with the film is that it gets boring, no matter how intense the situation was. It is a long, talky drama that never proves to be anything but a relatively forgettable, boring account of history (I'm not saying the complications this crew experienced were at all boring, its just the filmmakers didn't do a great job of making it look so).	There are some good performances, but they surprisingly don't include Harrison Ford. His Russian accent is weak, in fact, hardly noticeable. His performance makes it seem he didn't want to be in the film. Peter Sarsgaard is very good as well as Neeson.