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Brave men, insane leaders
The Widowmaker - even before it was launched, it killed ten of its own crew and construction crew. Under-built, under-supplied, under-staffed, the K-19 submarine hovered on the edge of disaster every minute it was afloat. <
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>This is a movie about soldiers fighting a Cold War that was very real to them, as real as the torpedo in the cradle they sat next to. Their mission was sabotaged from the start, by the very political leaders they served, by the belief that political purity would overcome any failure of physical resources. (An offhand joke partway through said it all - about a cosmonaut whose air supply failed, and who wasn't loyal enough to the party to hold his breath.) Still, they did their jobs as soldiers, even walking into sure and painful death to save the rest of their crew. <
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>This movie is a remarkable contrast to actual Cold War movies. The submarine crew is drawn sympathetically. Harrison Ford's character is a little deeper than the others, poised between party loyalty, a military sense of honor and duty, and a fatherly view of his crew. <
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>This isn't the most complex role Ford has ever played. Still, he plays it well, as one expects. There is a bit of a coincidence, though. Ford is well on his way to being a grand old man of movies, much as Sean Connery has. Connery did his Russian submarine movie (Hunt for Red October), now Ford has done his. Is there some kind of a checklist that I don't know about? <
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>This is a good movie. It's a look from the post-Soviet era back into the Cold War - however little shooting there may have been, it was a war nonetheless and this is a war movie. It doesn't glorify war, quite the opposite, but it does honor the soldiers stuck with the job of fighting it. <
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An experience
This film is an experience, watching it thinking that its based on something that happened is impressive. It is also nice to have a movie that doesn't need standard-hollywoody violence and action sequences. <
> But why do I give only 3 stars to it? Its because afterwards I made some investigation, the movie made me curious, and so I found that the surviving crewmembers in russia are not pleased with it. K-19 navigator Valentin Shabanov, 62, said: "Only two things in the film are true: the bottle of champagne did not break when the submarine was launched and yes, there was an accident with the reactor. The rest are tales from Uncle Sam." <
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> So when I see in the DVD specials Ms. director and her staff doing such detailed research and work, going to russia and practically rebuild a submarine in US, saying all the time how important it was to get everything as real as possible, how can they blow up all their efforts by not telling the real story. Now knowing that the story is not accurate, the movie is worthless to me.

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Great Movie!!!
This is a great movie and is far superb to U-571. The story is exellent and just about everything is exellent. I recommend this to any submarine movie collector or just a person who likes a good story.