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.
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09/26/09
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.
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $10,074,915
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
Reviews for Whiteout
Top CriticNeeded: 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.
11/09/09
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.
10/23/09
The movie is as inert as the wintry terrain in which it is set.
09/24/09
I wasn't entertained, I just wanted out of the supposed cold.
09/23/09
...just predictable routine.
09/23/09
a relatively mediocre, by-the-numbers mystery thriller that melts from your mind as soon as you step into the sunlight
09/22/09
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.
09/21/09
It's Kate Beckinsale on Ice.
09/21/09
The film's slick and expensive looking but dumber than a dead penguin.
09/21/09
Kate Beckinsale, adrift in a blizzard of cliches, doesn't have enough star presence or her Stevie Nicks black leather vampire drag to keep audiences from drifting away. Bland and predictable.
09/19/09
Is best when dealing with the splendors of the natural landscape.
09/18/09
It takes slightly longer than three minutes for diminished mental capacity to set in during this Antarctic murder mystery with a fatally low body temperature. Kate Beckinsale is unrepentantly lazy, dialogue is awful and its misdirection is obvious.
09/18/09
It's pretty poor.
09/18/09
The screenplay is unusually lazy -- additional investigators (Gabriel Macht, purportedly a U.N. detective) appear literally out of nowhere, in the middle of nowhere.
09/17/09
Starting from a graphic novel, Sena has turned out your standard TV crime show bloated with a monstrous FX budget.
09/17/09
Kate Beckinsale is about as convincing a U.S. Marshal as Joan Crawford is a loving mother.
09/16/09
I'd watch Kate Beckinsale in anything but even she can't make this movie anything better than average.
09/15/09
Where are the penguins?
09/15/09
Top CriticA stupid thriller.
09/15/09
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September 10, 2009:
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