Video Capsule Review

K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER (2002)

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Release Date: Jul 19, 2002; Rated: PG-13; Video Release Date: Dec 10, 2002; Genres: Drama, Thriller; With: Harrison Ford; Distributor: Paramount Pictures

By Noah Robischon

Noah Robischon

Noah Robischon is a senior writer for EW

Even as the reactor springs a leak and the sub starts to sink, it becomes clear that the K-19 has a technical problem: Harrison Ford's hair. His severe buzz cut is presumably meant to evoke the paranoid early-'60s era during which his Soviet naval captain is asked to take out the ill-fated submarine of the title. But his strange coif (not to mention his wobbly accent) undercuts the based-on-facts heroics of the crew members who risk life and party affiliation to avert a Chernobyl-in-the-Atlantic disaster. Both ship and movie should have stayed in dry dock.

Posted Dec 13, 2002

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