Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt

Carrie Stetko, the lone U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, is investigating the continent’s first murder, which draws her into a shocking mystery. Now, with only three days until winter, Carrie mus...( read more  read more... )t solve the crime before Antarctica is plunged into darkness and she is stranded with the killer.

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R, 1 hr. 46 min.

Directed by: Dominic Sena

Release Date: September 11, 2009

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DVD Release Date: January 12, 2010

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  • October 15, 2009
    well from the trailer for some reason I thought aliens had something to do with it. Maybe because it has lots of snow, based an Antarctica, the plane crashes & just for some reason reminds me of that movie ?IT? at least from the trailer? well I didn?t get what I expected. Kate B...( read more)eckensale plays the U.S. Marshall of the camps out in the white ?desert? Who needs to find the killer before the sun sets & the brutal winter sets in! Alex O'Loughlin from ( the vampire series Moonlight that didn?t last cause it didn?t have enough bite!) is in it.. WITH the aussie accent. & Tom Skerritt plays the Doctor. I?d say wait for Cable.. some of the stuff to me wasn?t all that believable. (what temperature is it that your lungs freeze if you breath in the air up there? When you don?t wear one of those masks that cover your whole face but eyes?) D
  • October 2, 2009
    Kate is just not good as a lead role. Yes she handled Underworld, but as far as a normal type movie, she cant do it. She needs to be a supporting actor, that's just who she is. :( sorry kate.

    Movie was kinda lame. It had no real purpose.
  • September 25, 2009
    US Marshall Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) is about to return home from her posting to the Antarctic Scoot-Amundsen base before the arrival of bad weather strands the crew for the winter. Unfortunately, a murder victim chooses that particular moment to be discovered, and we are ...( read more)firmly into who-dun-what territory.

    For what is essentially a fairly routine murder mystery, Whiteout is consistently entertaining. For a start, the Antarctic setting is unusual and lends both atmosphere and suspense even before the plot is taken into account. The plot, while straightforward, has enough in it to keep you guessing - there wasn't a single element I hadn't encountered before, but the movie was nonetheless solidly constructed in a way to make those familiar elements seem fresh (although the cold light of day reveals that some areas don't bear examining too closely).

    And Kate Beckinsale can easily hold centre stage throughout a film like this, striking just the right balance between strength and vulnerability.

    I went into this movie expecting to come out thinking "Well, that passed a couple of hours satisfactorily," but I came out thinking "Well, that was noticeably better than I expected."
  • September 21, 2009
    This movie was crap. Wow, is it crap. I mean, wow, does it suck.

    Ok, for starters, not a single actor did any sort of decent job. Kate Beckinsale clearly did this movie for the paycheck, not b/c she cared about the story. Every character was very bland and typical. No rea...( read more)son to feel involved with any of their lives.

    The story was stupid and filled with plot holes out the wazoo. I'm going to give away spoilers, but you shouldn't care b/c you shouldn't ever see this movie anyway.

    The movie starts off in a Russian plane back in the 40s or 50s. For some reason they don't give you the date, you just have to figure it out. The plane has something really valuable. You find out later what it is, but what you don't find out is why the hell the Russians are flying over Antarctica in the first place. I mean, did they get lost or something?

    You find out very early on that the killer is just some greedy human. Big deal. A movie is a lot less scary/suspenseful when it's a guy with an axe coming after you. Just get a gun and shoot him.

    So it's pretty much a bunch of blah blah blah for 90 minutes, and then they think that they have to throw a twist in the loop. Uh oh, the guy who tried to kill them isn't the only bad guy???

    Well, this movie tries so hard to make you think that one particular person (the UN guy) is the "bad" guy that you automatically know that it won't be him. Or maybe you actually do fall for it, but I've seen enough movies to know better.

    Then there's the big reveal (It can't be him! He was behind it the whole time???) and you're supposed to be shocked. Well, the stupid thing about this is, we are never given a single damn clue that he is the bad guy. Not a one. We figure it out at the same time Kate Beckinsale does, but there's nothing to help us solve it.

    Speaking of solving stuff, Kate Beckinsale's character has like some type of sixth sense or something b/c she's like super detective. She sees a box in the plane that has a broken padlock and there's blood on the floor. Somehow she pieces together that it was so-and-so trying to open the box with a crowbar or whatever and he accidentally drives the tool into his leg.

    How did she figure this out? Beats me. And she does this the whole movie. She's some master at piecing things together with like one clue to guide her.

    If she walked into a room and saw a cat, a candy bar and a bloody fork she would figure out that so-and-so from the beginning of the movie must have went to the grocery store 2 weeks ago to buy eggs and stopped to get a movie on the way home, at which point he kills his whole family.

    This movie has zero redeeming qualities. Skip it at all costs.
  • September 19, 2009
    typical whodunit, only the hot babe isn't just window dressing, she's the detective. throw in extreme climate conditions and you got everything but the dress dinner where the detective gets the suspects all together to reveal who the murderer really is. i guessed in 5, count'em...( read more), 5 minutes after the opening titles, and no dinner either. still...fun.
  • November 21, 2009
    didn''t expect this movie to keep me on my feet. saw a different kate beckinsale. love it!
  • November 20, 2009
    One word. BORING. Sorry Greg Rucka. I like your comic book work, but this movie blew. A rare thing for me, I actually couldn't finish it.
  • November 19, 2009
    has to be good if beckinsale's in it
  • November 19, 2009
    i want to see whiteout
  • November 19, 2009
    exelent, nice fx. she is beautiful

Critic Reviews


September 15, 2009
A.O. Scott, At the Movies

Where are the penguins? full review

September 11, 2009
Kyle Smith, New York Post

The severely nonthrilling thriller Whiteout moves like winter in Antarctica. Who the flake greenlit this blobby blur? full review

September 11, 2009
Claudia Puig, USA Today

While the setting can be mesmerizing, little else about this movie is captivating. It's a standard-issue thriller, with a twist you see coming a continent away. full review

September 11, 2009
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle

The film is all panicky zooms and badly staged action dotted with random forensic gross-outs. And, just for the fun of it, an amputation scene. full review

September 11, 2009
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

A ham-handed murder mystery. full review

September 11, 2009
A.O. Scott, The New York Times

Has a perfunctory, by-the-numbers approach to its story and its characters. full review

September 11, 2009
Kurt Loder, MTV

A frozen hellhole. full review

September 11, 2009
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

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. full review

September 10, 2009
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

It's a wonder Whiteout isn't in 3D, what with its initial onslaught of in-your-face flying propellers, crashing planes, and a lingering close-up of Kate Beckinsale stripping to her skivvies. full review

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Comments


  • basembzour
    September 11, 2009
    i like this movie
  • TheCreativityMaster
    November 29, 2008
    Actually it's September 11th, 2009.
  • jimmytom10
    June 11, 2008
    actually its september 2008
  • rubee122
    March 6, 2008
    Does anyone know when this movie will be out? It looks good.
  • underdownd
    January 16, 2008
    I think it will be a great movie ,i am looking forward to see it.Alex o loughlin is in it.

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