Devoid of personality and full of characters so one-dimensional that they aren’t even worth mentioning in this review, Whiteout is a movie that sees no-one emerge with any credit.
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09/11/09
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
What's missing from Whiteout is the pervasive sense of paranoia that you'd expect, or hope for, from a thriller set on the coldest and most isolated land mass on the planet.
09/11/09
Top CriticIts worst offense is assuming the audience is so dumb that it'll be shocked by one of the most telegraphed endings in movie history. On second thought, maybe the filmmakers got their wish: Whiteout is shocking, shockingly bad.
09/11/09
By eliminating so many suspects before the obligatory drawing-room denouement and final deadly confrontation, it's a given that the audience will feel cheated when the real bad guy turns out to be the only possible contender.
09/11/09
Should fade faster than a polar bear in a blizzard.
09/11/09
Top CriticWith plotholes you could drive a snowplough through and as eventful as an Antarctic winter, Whiteout is less a whodunit than a getonwithit.
09/11/09
Set in Antarctica, but unbelievably boring. I kept hoping for something unexpected to show up, like a killer penguin, but it never did.
09/11/09
Hobbled by a ruinously slow start, an utter lack of excitement and a twist ending that everyone will see coming, we're left with one of the year's worst.
09/11/09
The first sight the audience gets of the Brit star is her stripping to her undies, pointing her perfectly-shaped rear to the camera then stepping into the shower. It's one of Whiteout's three highlights.
09/11/09
An uninspired thriller.
09/11/09
Apart from a lascivious shot of his scantily clad star, director Dominic Sena keeps the action fairly swift under blizzard-like conditions: at times we seem to be watching people fight inside a snow globe.
09/11/09
Whiteout has a good premise and a likeable lead, but it goes rapidly downhill and is ultimately disappointing.
09/11/09
This generic snowbound thriller desperately wants to remind you of Insomnia, but it's not worth losing much sleep over.
09/11/09
Lacks sufficient thrills, chills and intrigue as it grows into an increasingly ludicrous and inane mess, even if you're willing to suspend your disbelief for 101 minutes.
09/11/09
Characters flail their way through the snow and we squint to see what's going on only to discover that what's going on is pretty much nothing.
09/11/09
The film's been sitting on the shelf for 2 1/2 years; maybe it went bad?
09/10/09
The funniest Antarctic thriller of 2009!!!
09/10/09
like keeping a refrigerator door open, [director Dominic Sena] lets out all the fear and suspense.
09/10/09
Perhaps it would have been better if I'd blacked out for most of Whiteout.
09/10/09
.Little more than an extended episode of "C.S.I. Antarctica," "Whiteout" is a film that couldn't be more boring and uninteresting if it tried and if there is one thing that it most certainly doesn't do, it is try.
09/10/09
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September 10, 2009:
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