I wasn't entertained, I just wanted out of the supposed cold.
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09/23/09
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: 15 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:11-09-2009
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
...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
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
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.
09/13/09
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
Latest News for Whiteout
September 10, 2009:
Critics Consensus: 9 Looks Great, But The Plot's Weak
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September 09, 2009:
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