![]() ![]() “I got plenty of advice to not take that character. ![]() By the time he arrived at “K-19” in 2002, his box office and pop culture hold as the premiere leading man showed few signs of loosening. Few leading men in the history of Hollywood have experienced a twenty-year run like Ford did, beginning with “ The Empire Strikes Back” in 1980 to “ What Lies Beneath” in 2000. It can take years of bouncing around from bit part to bit part and slowly honing one’s craft before an actor is entrusted with that mantle. A movie’s quality and financial success can live or die based on his charisma, sex appeal, range, and general presence. “K-19” offers an instructional lesson on the strengths and limitations, and the responsibility placed upon a leading man. The iron-willed Vostrikov must contend with Mikhail "Misha" Polenin ( Liam Neeson), the popular executive officer he replaced as captain, his mutinous crew, and his own bootlicking sense of duty and patriotism to see his men as human rather than pawns of a totalitarian government. And the ship will explode, thereby causing the destruction of the American destroyer tailing them, leading to World War III. If it continues every man onboard will die. During their voyage, the Soviet crew discover the vessel’s nuclear reactor is leaking. Set in 1961, “K-19” tells the story of a Soviet Union nuclear submarine, helmed by Vostrikov, that is first sent toward the Arctic to test the capabilities of launching a ballistic missile and then to America’s eastern seaboard. ![]()
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