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Whiteout (2009)

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Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 111
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 103

Kate Beckinsale is as lovely as ever, and does her best with the material, but moribund pacing and an uninspired plot leave Whiteout in the cold.

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Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 22

Kate Beckinsale is as lovely as ever, and does her best with the material, but moribund pacing and an uninspired plot leave Whiteout in the cold.

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Average Rating: 2.3/5
User Ratings: 525,272

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Movie Info

A U.S. marshall tracking a vicious murderer through the Antarctic must locate the killer before the sun sets for six months, or risk being trapped in the dark with the madman for months on end in director Dominic Sena's adaptation of the graphic novel series by Greg Rucka. U.S. marshall Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) has been stationed at Antarctica's South Pole research base for two years, and now after turning in her resignation she's looking forward to finally going home. The last plane out

Jan 19, 2010

$10.2M

Warner Bros. Pictures

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All Critics (113) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (104) | DVD (5)

It's Kate Beckinsale on Ice.

September 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Associated Press | Comment
Associated Press
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The film's slick and expensive looking but dumber than a dead penguin.

September 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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Where are the penguins?

September 15, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comments (2)
At the Movies
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A stupid thriller.

September 15, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comment
At the Movies
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For all its frozen blood, assaults with ice axes and killer weather, Whiteout turns out to be only a pale imitation of the thriller it might have been.

September 11, 2009 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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The severely nonthrilling thriller Whiteout moves like winter in Antarctica. Who the flake greenlit this blobby blur?

September 11, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Post | Comment (1)
New York Post
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When the snow starts blowing, it's impossible to tell who's who and what's what. Maybe parkas should be color-coded.

September 29, 2011 Full Review Source: American Profile | Comment

Whiteout isn't particularly bad but it does follow the thriller playbook step-by-step with only a little tweaking. A lack of originality isn't the end of the world but it could have been so much better.

March 10, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
ComingSoon.net

Dominic Sena, whose credits include 1993's 'Kalifornia' (good) and 1996's 'Swordfish' (not so good), can't seem to find anything new under the perpetually obscured sun.

May 11, 2010 Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | Comment
San Francisco Examiner

If you'd forgotten that this title ever existed, well, so have I.

February 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | Comment
Film Freak Central

South Pole-set whodunnit is bloody but bland.

January 19, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

...the scenery overwhelms the meager plot and characters. (Blu-ray Edition)

January 16, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Okay, it's far from the best murder mystery you've ever seen, but I still can't help but liking this throwaway thriller. The ending was no surprise. Paul Chambers, CNN.

January 14, 2010 Full Review Source: CNNRadio | Comment
CNNRadio

...it's painless. Brainless, too, but not so much so that you want to throw a shoe at the screen.

January 12, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment (1)
Movie Metropolis

Needed: Generic thriller in an exotic setting, some gore, possible sci-fi elements, female lead, and an older male star to play grizzled supporting character. Must work cheap.

November 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Examiner.com | Comment
Examiner.com

Whiteout is a colorless wasteland. There's only one thing that could have helped cover this film up: A flashback that changed the script's name to Wite-Out.

October 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

The film's biggest crime is that no obvious effort was made here, everything flows with the rigidity of a check list of genre cliches and safe choices.

September 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | Comment
Dark Horizons

The movie is as inert as the wintry terrain in which it is set.

September 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Quick Stop Entertainment | Comment
Quick Stop Entertainment

I wasn't entertained, I just wanted out of the supposed cold.

September 23, 2009 Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review | Comment
The Scorecard Review

...just predictable routine.

September 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | Comment
Reeling Reviews

a relatively mediocre, by-the-numbers mystery thriller that melts from your mind as soon as you step into the sunlight

September 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | Comment
Q Network Film Desk

The misleading trailer suggests 'Nancy Drew vs. the Thing,' but this graphic-novel adaptation is more 'CSI: Antractica' -- a straight if occasionally gruesome murder mystery, boosted by the novelty of its sub-zero South Pole setting.

September 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | Comment
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
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Audience Reviews for Whiteout

I love Kate Beckinsale in almost anything. . this though well .. left me wanting. Not the best murder mystery out there and it showed. The cast was decent but seemed to lack any kid of ummph. I think the source material and or the script just didnt give them much to work with and the end result was kinda plain.

January 25, 2010
jmanard52

Super Reviewer

When a US Marshall operating out of a base in Antarctica discovers a dead body in the middle of nowhere, she must uncover the culprit before a huge snowstorm cuts them off from the outside world. Whiteout begins with a gratuitous action scene followed by a computer generated plane crash. Then our first glance of the

January 19, 2010
garyX
xGary Xx

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    1. Dr. John Fury: I never meant for anyone to get hurt, but Haden got greedy.
    – Submitted by Chris P (12 months ago)
    1. Carrie Stetko: How bad is it?
    2. Delfy: Bad enough that you don't want to see.
    – Submitted by Chris P (12 months ago)
    1. Carrie Stetko: This ice has been worked. (Walks off and falls into a hole)
    2. Delfy: Stetko!!!
    – Submitted by James W (12 months ago)

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