11. K-19 The Widowmaker (2002)

An old-school coldwar nuclear sub thriller based on a true story from 1961, with Harrison Ford as the icily authoritarian Soviet commander busting out his Ryushhhyan acksyent. Liam Neeson plays his second-in-command, resentful at having this cold fish imposed over his head and yet destined to respect the guy. Some slightly clunky traditional moments for our two leading males, but also a few exciting ones.

10. The Weight of Water (2000)

At the time, this cerebral and multilayered psychological drama was sympathetically received as Kathryn Bigelow’s (possibly permanent) pivot to arthouse-type film-making and away from the high-impact action genre. Catherine McCormack plays a journalist researching the 19th-century murders of Norwegian immigrants, who n

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