You'd think that a movie that opens with a gratuitous Kate Beckinsale shower scene couldn't be all bad. But you'd be wrong.
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Whiteout (2009)
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Reviews Counted:102
Fresh:6
Rotten:96
Average Rating:3.4/10
Consensus: 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.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:Sep 11, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $10,235,867
Synopsis: Antarctica... The most isolated landmass on Earth 90° S. latitude, zero E. longitude Six million square miles of ice ... [More]
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, Columbus Short
Director: Dominic Sena
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Reviews for Whiteout
At first I thought they were trying to do a film noir thing with the dialogue, but then I realized that it was just bad writing made worse by horrendous line delivery.
09/13/09
Whiteout is not awful, but it is maddeningly mediocre.
09/13/09
The characters based on the [graphic] novel never get beyond one dimension and the film moves at the pace of an Antarctic glacier. On second thought, the glacier moves faster.
09/12/09
Setting Whiteout in Antarctica salvages the movie from the cinematic scrap heap.
09/12/09
What a stiff.
09/12/09
The mystery grows thick while the ice on which the story elements struggle to survive melts away.
09/11/09
It has a great cast, an original thriller setting, and a compelling concept, and yet the central mystery is surprisingly limp.
09/11/09
A lifeless whodunit, it wastes the mystical setting and the always game Kate Beckinsale on a pedestrian plot that could be set anywhere.
09/11/09
A tolerably entertaining film starring the weather.
09/11/09
...an easy enough way to pass time if you're not too demanding or if the cast or unusual setting piques your interest.
09/11/09
It's as bad as "I Know What You Did Last Summer", except on ICE!
09/11/09
Ice-schlocky - an idiotic wipeout.
09/11/09
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.
09/11/09
The severely nonthrilling thriller Whiteout moves like winter in Antarctica. Who the flake greenlit this blobby blur?
09/11/09
Top CriticWhile the setting can be mesmerizing, little else about this movie is captivating. It's a standard-issue thriller, with a twist you see coming a continent away.
09/11/09
No event occurs without a character telling us what we're seeing. This unwelcome commentary is so overdone that it becomes, by the end, an invitation for audience participation. All together now: It's a body! Looks like it's been shot in the head!
09/11/09
Top CriticWhiteout offers nothing to satisfy fans of the comic and nothing to satisfy even the casual filmgoer just looking for diversion or escape from the heat.
09/11/09
Whiteout conditions don't translate well to the action genre, either. Unless you don't mind watching unidentifiable snow-suited folks grapple in -50C conditions with an also-unidentifiable icepick-wielding murderer as CG ice violently pelts down on them.
09/11/09
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