excellent story, good acting and enough suspense

Rating: Null/10 (20 March 2003)

This movie is not about a war between USA and Russia, but between people of the same kind with no escape route. A movie about trusting or not trusting each other, about helping or not helping each other. About breaking or not breaking the rules men live by. Giving your live in order to rescue others.

That's what makes this movie a good movie for me. I don't have to watch battles or fights between two opposite countries.
The pictures are clear and let you almost perfectly taste the fear of those men, the atmosphere they live in. The sounds of steel almost ripping apart is realistic enough to let you think you are in the submarine and not outside. The shots of the men outside the submarine, in Russia when they leave for a journey and playing a soccer game on ice covered with snow. It all makes it as if I was in their neighborhood.
I found K-19 not just one of many movies. It's a living portrait of what happened down their.