The best submarine film based on a true story-Superb

Rating: 10/10 (27 March 2007)

Whereas Tom Clancy's "The Hunt For Red October" is my favorite fiction submarine movie, and "Down Periscope" is my favorite comedy submarine movie, "K19 The Widowmaker" is hands down my favorite true submarine story. Harrison Ford really shines as the hard as nails Captain of a nuclear sub which is ordered to sea before it is ready, just to prove Soviet parity in the nuclear race of the cold war. Liam Neeson is also quite credible in the part of the sub commander demoted to executive officer for not having the boat ready on time. And actor Joss Ackland again plays a Soviet High Ranking official who is more concerned about his own place in power than he is about the welfare of the crew of this sub. This is a visually constricting, riveting, tautly written, directed and performed film that you will be unable to forget once you have seen it. Especially touching is the scene in the cemetery, twenty-eight years later when the two captains and the entire surviving crew are reunited. This is a ten out of ten, and not to be missed.