All the drama seemed so Hollywoodized

Rating: Null/10 (9 January 2004)

K-19 was no where near as bad as reviews made it out to be when it was in theaters. And I didn't find Harrison Ford's accent to be bad or that annoying. The problem is I don't think the real story of this sub was interesting enough for 2.5 hour movie. A lot of the conflicts seemed made up and they probably were. Like the part with the tension between the two captains. The attempted mutiny. The part where the new captain decides to go go as deep as the sub will go just to test it. I doubt all that really happened. Then, I also wonder if those sailers really volunteered to go into the nuclear reactor room. I think it would be more likely they were forced to at gun point.
Finally, what was up with the big, fat, fake, noses on the elderly Ford and Neeson at the end. If you are going to give someone a fake nose, then why aren't they wearing it throughout the entire film.
FINAL VERDICT: Way to long for the subject matter. It would have been better just to make this a TV movie for the history channel. It probably would have been more faithful to the real story then.