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Whiteout
EMAILPRINTWarner Bros. Pictures
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 19 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 22 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Crime | Drama | Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Jon Hoebe
Erich Hoeber
Chad Hayes
Carey W. Hayes
Directed by: Dominic Sena
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 11, 2009
DVD: January 19, 2010
Running Time: 96 minutes, Color
Origin: Canada | USA
Summary
RATING: R for violence, grisly images, brief strong language and some nudity
Starring Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Columbus Short, Tom Skerritt, Alex O'Loughlin, and Shawn Doyle
For U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko, things are about to get even more dangerous. The only law enforcement in this unforgiving territory, she has just been sent to investigate a body on the ice. Antarctica's first homicide. A shocking discovery in itself, it will plunge her into an even more bizarre mystery and the revelation of secrets long-buried under the endless ice...secrets that someone believes are still worth killing for. As Stetko races to find the killer before he finds her, winter is already closing in. In the deadly Antarctic whiteout, she won't see him till he's a breath away. (Warner Bros.)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
A conventionally jam-packed, dutifully ludicrous action thriller.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
While the setting can be mesmerizing, little else about this movie is captivating.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
Briefly, not knowing who has the upper hand is exciting, but as the fight wears on, it becomes irritating.
Read Full Review >Variety Lael Loewenstein
Its stunning natural landscape notwithstanding, Antarctica-set thriller Whiteout, a frozen concoction of red herrings, incongruous plot points and thinly developed characters, will leave auds cold.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Glenn Whipp
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!
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Instead of being sharp and stylish, the picture just meanders pointlessly toward its allegedly surprising conclusion, dragging the actors along with it. Nearly everything about it is heavy and off-balance, like an overloaded sled.
Read Full Review >Time Out New York Keith Uhlich
Kate Beckinsale is about as convincing a U.S. Marshal as Joan Crawford is a loving mother. But like that megastar of yesteryear, she gets a helluva terrific entrance in the Antarctica-set murder mystery Whiteout.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
It could be said that Whiteout is an honest attempt to set an old-fashioned whodunit in an exotic locale, but the mystery at the film’s core is so hopelessly dull that one begins to long for a third-act cameo by the Abominable Snowman.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
In a bad movie, no one can hear you scream, Kate. Or really appreciate your shower scene, for that matter.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Whiteout is a ham-handed murder mystery that starts out average and heads south from there, falling apart under the pressures of graceless camerawork, leaps of illogic, and TV-movie production values.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Tirdad Derakhshani
Some films feel off from the get-go. They don't hang together, despite the best intentions. Whiteout, a singularly unsuspenseful, unexciting, unthrilling Arctic thriller starring Underworld's Kate Beckinsale, isn't exactly one of these. It's even worse.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Stephen Farber
Even a bad thriller can be entertaining, and this gory murder mystery set in Antarctica has a certain dumb fascination -- up to a point. Then it is defeated by its sheer idiocy.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
The fun is nowhere to be found in this overly dour duller.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Elias Savada
Even a lame aurora borealis can't brighten up the dismal, perfunctory acting.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
By the time this thing creaked to a close, the look on my face suggested Jack Nicholson at the end of "The Shining."
Read Full Review >Washington Post Dan Zak
So staggeringly bad that it achieves a kind of transcendent poetry. It's ignorant of how things are in the real world, of what makes a thriller a thriller, of why people seek out entertainment.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen
The film's slick and expensive looking but dumber than a dead penguin, and director Dominic Sena fails worst where it counts most, in staging intelligible action sequences set in a blinding blizzard.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.8 (out of 10) based on 22 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Toman gave it a1:
The storyline is weak. The acting is poor. The camera work is poor. The reason for a such a short comment is because the movie really did not provide anything to evaluate for the audience.
German B. gave it an8:
Actually i found this very entertaining, love the performances, it´s a good thriller, not an Oscar contender.
w p gave it a2:
Jonathan Mostow never rises above mediocre. But then again none of his movies have ever transcended mediocrity..His action sequences are usually tight and well edited and that's why hollywood gives him money. The recipe:: The thing,a little Alien, smidge of CSI CLiffhanger and the Wilby conpiracy -Voila. Sadly a waste of 3 hours .At least Skerritt got a nice check!
Edward D gave it a6:
I found the movie interesting and tense. It was an exciting mystery with quality performances by all. I was never bored with it. Kate Beckinsale was superb and easy to look at. Nitpicking silliness by some some raters is most irritating. Of course, this is not a blockbuster, but it will hold your interest unless you are too much of a dullard to pay attention to what is going on.
[Anonymous] gave it a3:
Disjointed and utterly nonsensical plot. Stiff-as-boards acting.
Chad S. gave it a3:
The oil miners in Larry Fessenden's "The Last Winter" looked cold. Living with snow seemed like a hardship. Its long-term effects was self-evident on their faces. They looked haggard and pissed off. Not for one second does the moviegoer lose sight of the film's frigid terrain setting. And this was "only" Alaska, not the "coldest most isolated landmass on the planet". Antarctica should be an imposing, hyperreal presence that informs everything Carrie Stetko(Kate Beckinsale) and her colleagues at the ice station do in their waking hours. When the U.S. marshal takes a hot, languid(and vainglorious) shower with her willowy body obscured by steam and frosted glass, the filmmaker bungles its Antarctican backdrop. Suddenly, the south pole doesn't look like a bad place to visit. She's a recruiting tool to freeze your ass off. Despite the film's many instances of convincing weather-related extremities, the marshal has a place to hide; she can come in from the cold. That might be the underlying reason why "White Out" is so curiously listless and uninvolving. Everybody looks cozy and having too much fun inside the base. To a considerable extent, the severity of their situation is neutralized by the accoutrements of modernity. Carrie should smell like the permafrost, and look like a popsicle. She isn't tortured enough. If a sane, healthy woman chooses such an ungodly assignment by her own volition, she must be damaged and intends to be alone. Under this context, maybe the alleged thrilling plot points might have worked. But Carrie has too much company. For Antarctica to function as a cold-blooded character in itself, the marshal should be driven to drink, not do her hair and face, on a daily basis.
TDKinDallas gave it a5:
Pretty laughable all around. Just don't expect the story to be any better than a TV movie and prepare to not be impressed by the special effects. Nothing in this story is believable either. I hate to admit that I still kind of enjoyed it, I guess I was in a weird mood.
