Movie Review

Whiteout (2009)

EW's GRADE
C+

Details Release Date: Sep 11, 2009; Rated: R; Genre: Action/Adventure; With: Kate Beckinsale

 SNOW ESCAPE Kate Beckinsale investigates an Antarctican murder in Whiteout
SNOW ESCAPE Kate Beckinsale investigates an Antarctican murder in Whiteout

How cold is it in Antarctica? Cold enough for hands to freeze — but lips to remain kissing soft. Or at least that's the bad news/good news for Kate Beckinsale as a comely U.S. marshal at an ice-encrusted American research station, investigating a homicide when not battling flashbacks of Something Bad that once happened to her in Miami. Whiteout is a conventionally jam-packed, dutifully ludicrous action thriller, based on a graphic novel, which features the lithe marshal in a steamy shower and a chase scene in zero-degree visibility (the bad guy wields a scary pickax). As a bonus, a team of screenwriters devised a prologue involving those sturdiest of menaces — 1950s-style Russians swigging vodka. Ah, but are they merely red herrings? C+

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Originally posted Sep 10, 2009

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