Whiteout (2009)
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 112
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 104
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.
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 25
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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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
Sep 11, 2009 Wide
Jan 19, 2010
$10.2M
Warner Bros. Pictures
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Cast
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Kate Beckinsale
Carrie Stetko -
Gabriel Macht
Robert Pryce -
Tom Skerritt
Dr. John Fury -
Columbus Short
Delfy -
Alex O'Loughlin
Russell Haden -
Shawn Doyle
Sam Murphy -
Joel S. Keller
Jack -
Jesse Todd
Rubin -
Arthur Holden
McGuire -
Erin Hicock
Rhonda -
Bashar Rahal
Russian Pilot -
Julian Cain
Russian Co-Pilot -
Dennis Keiffer
Russian Guard -
Andrei Runtso
Russian Guard -
Roman Varshavsky
Russian Guard -
Steve Lucescu
Mooney -
Paula Jean Hixson
Lab Tech -
Craig Pinckes
Aircraft Tech -
Sean Tucker
Operations Tech -
Marc James Beauchamp
Weiss -
Nick Villarin
Newbie -
Louis Dionne
Man in Hall -
Patrick Sabongui
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It's Kate Beckinsale on Ice.
Top CriticThe film's slick and expensive looking but dumber than a dead penguin.
Kate Beckinsale is about as convincing a U.S. Marshal as Joan Crawford is a loving mother.
Where are the penguins?
A stupid thriller.
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.
Gallons of the titular correction fluid may have helped Dominic Sena's abysmal thriller if it had been applied at just about any juncture during the graphic novel-to-feature film script stage.
When the snow starts blowing, it's impossible to tell who's who and what's what. Maybe parkas should be color-coded.
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.
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.
If you'd forgotten that this title ever existed, well, so have I.
South Pole-set whodunnit is bloody but bland.
...the scenery overwhelms the meager plot and characters. (Blu-ray Edition)
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.
...it's painless. Brainless, too, but not so much so that you want to throw a shoe at the screen.
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.
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.
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.
The movie is as inert as the wintry terrain in which it is set.
I wasn't entertained, I just wanted out of the supposed cold.
...just predictable routine.
a relatively mediocre, by-the-numbers mystery thriller that melts from your mind as soon as you step into the sunlight
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.
Audience Reviews for Whiteout
Super Reviewer
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- Dr. John Fury: I never meant for anyone to get hurt, but Haden got greedy.
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- Carrie Stetko: How bad is it?
- Delfy: Bad enough that you don't want to see.
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- Carrie Stetko: This ice has been worked. (Walks off and falls into a hole)
- Delfy: Stetko!!!
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The movies visuals though were pretty stunning. . 3d CG and all. Just looked like a very harsh place to be.