K - 19: The Widowmaker (hereafter K - 19) has a tedious narrative married to vein - swelling performances presented in
that frank gracelessness indicative of director Kathryn Bigelow's sledgehammer - chic since long about Point Break, brought together under the steady hand of a legendary editor (Walter Murch) that only just guides this behemoth of conflicting ideas and wet (and drunken) Russian submariners into the dry dock of coherence.