Not to be confused with K-9, K-2 or even K-PAX, the fact-based K-19 is nevertheless strictly DOA and should be KO’d ASAP.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 2, 2024

Does a competent job of creating the same sense of creepy claustrophobia that made classic sub actioners like Das Boot, Crimson Tide and The Hunt For Red October so memorable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 4, 2020

Why did movie moguls think that this was the right moment for a tale of unflinching loyalty to the Soviet Union?

| Mar 5, 2013

...takes its place among a small group of undersea motion pictures. Unfortunately, it takes its place at the end of the line.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 7, 2010

A brutally effective, brilliantly constructed dramatic thriller.

| Feb 3, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

K-19 makes an American audience care about Communists trapped between a rock and a hard place deep beneath the sea.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Dec 6, 2004

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 7, 2004

| Original Score: B | Aug 7, 2004

Kathryn Bigelow's K-19 sinks to a watery grave.

| May 19, 2004

Manages to find another way to become a big-budget Hollywood summer production that shamelessly panders to the lowest common denominator.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 7, 2004

... A taut, skillfully-executed thriller anchored by two rock-solid leading men.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 6, 2004

Occasionally trying on accents that are reminiscent of a 'Rocky and Bullwinkle' cartoon, Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson have rarely been saddled with such awkward roles.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 4, 2004

O sotaque de Ford inconstante e Bigelow tenta forar demais o drama. Vale pela histria.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2003

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 30, 2003

It's a military maxim that there is no room for egos on a submarine. Which prompts the question if there's any more room for another military movie set below the waves?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 13, 2003

This movie has all the hallmarks of a well-made, dramatic film that takes itself just a little too seriously.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

The movie is solidly paced and well acted but lacks the emotional connection that might have made it a classic.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 3, 2003

A cold war thriller told from the Russian point of view which gives it the appearance of having more credibility and dark truth than if this were an American story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 8, 2002