It is about a real-life historical event in the past. Captain Alexi Vostrikov, a Russian naval officer, leads the first nuclear submarine- K-19
23 April 1939, Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Almaty, Kazakhstan]
1970, Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]
7 June 1952, Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
1942, Alvechurch, Worcestershire, England, UK
22 November 1963, Reykjavik, Iceland
7 July 1971, New York City, New York, USA
29 February 1928, North Kensington, London, England, UK
13 February 1943, Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England, UK
6 March 1978, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
17 October 1976, London, England, UK
13 July 1983, Berwick, Nova Scotia, Canada
9 September 1983, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
27 April 1942, Birmingham, England, UK
1 January 1977, Southwark, London, England, UK
4 October 1978, Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada
9 January 1913, Yorba Linda, California, USA
13 June 1976, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
May 07, 2010
...takes its place among a small group of undersea motion pictures. Unfortunately, it takes its place at the end of the line.
July 23, 2002
Bigelow hits all her marks and more within the narrow parameters.
July 22, 2002
[A] really strong work from start to finish.
March 05, 2013
Why did movie moguls think that this was the right moment for a tale of unflinching loyalty to the Soviet Union?
July 19, 2002
More intellectually scary than dramatically involving.
May 19, 2004
Kathryn Bigelow's K-19 sinks to a watery grave.
January 07, 2004
Manages to find another way to become a big-budget Hollywood summer production that shamelessly panders to the lowest common denominator.
December 06, 2004
K-19 makes an American audience care about Communists trapped between a rock and a hard place deep beneath the sea.
February 03, 2006
A brutally effective, brilliantly constructed dramatic thriller.
January 06, 2004
... A taut, skillfully-executed thriller anchored by two rock-solid leading men.
July 25, 2002
What could have been a movie packed with historical significance and nail-gnawing underwater tension ends up little more than a lumbering public-service announcement for the human spirit.
July 19, 2002
Gets stuck in a no man's land between the real and the fictional.
