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Synopsis: As the only law enforcement in Antarctica, U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko races to solve the continent's first murder before winter traps her on the endless ice with the unknown killer.

Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht

Supporting actors: Columbus Short, Tom Skerritt

Directed by: Dominic Sena

Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes

Release year: 2009

Studio: Warner Bros.

MPAA Rating: Rated R for violence, grisly images, brief strong language and some nudity

ASIN: B002Z8LPZ4 (Rental) and B002Z8LPYA (Purchase)

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Whiteout DVD ~ Kate Beckinsale

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Theatrical Release Information

US Theatrical Release Date: September 11, 2009
MPAA: Rated R for violence, grisly images, brief strong language and some nudity
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Dark Castle Entertainment, Studio Canal, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC), Manitoba Film and Video Production Tax Credit, Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), Don Carmody Productions, McMurdo (Canada) Productions
Filming Locations: Boucherville, Québec, Canada | Cité du Cinéma, Montréal, Québec, Canada | Gimli, Manitoba, Canada | Lake Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada | Lundar Beach Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada | Melrose Studios, Saint-Hubert, Québec, Canada | Montréal, Québec, Canada | St-Hubert Airport, Saint-Hubert, Québec, Canada | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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3.0 out of 5 stars Kate stays bundled up...well, most of the time, September 12, 2009

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Monkdude (Hampton, Virginia) - See all my reviews

I didn't quite know what to expect when I sat down in the theater today to watch Whiteout. The trailers led me to believe it would be some sort of supernatural type film set in Antarctica, but I wasn't really sure if it was just the weather that would be the evil force or some sort of creature. It was none of the above. Whiteout is really just a typical thriller/mystery that happens to occur on the coldest land mass in the world. It involves some murders back in 1957 and few more in present day that Kate's character investigates. Within the first ten minutes you get the gorgeous Kate Beckinsale stripping down to her undies (always a good thing), but I didn't expect that to be the films only true highlight. Other than her obvious use in that particular scene, I can't believe they casted a good looking woman only to cover her up from head to toe and in multiple layers for the last 90 minutes. Not to mention a giant snow hat on her head. Anyways, most of the acting was okay I guess. Kind of bland, but nothing noticeably bad.

Whiteout is actually pretty darn entertaining if you take it for what it is and don't expect anything special. It deserves better than all the negative reviews it is receiving from the critics, but I have to admit that without the early gratuitous scene or the atmospheric location, I probably wouldn't give this thing more that two stars. You might get a couple of shivers from this one, but those looking for some true frostbite should stick with John Carpenter's The Thing.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Beckinsale steams up the screen in this frigid thriller, February 21, 2010

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Darren Harrison "DVD collector and reviewer" (Washington D.C.) - See all my reviews
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The studios seemed unsure on how to market this movie and the punchline of being the coldest movie ever filmed hardly inspired confidence in the Antarctica-set thriller and the movie quickly vanished from movie screens. That it did not get an audience could also be explained by the fact that the film never quite identified itself in its marketing material. Was it a paranormal thriller? Was it a horror movie? Was it a psychological thriller? The truth be told it was none of these and was probably closest in structure and narrative to a western.
The plot revolves around a research station in the Antarctic that is prepping for a hibernation period where a skeleton crew keep things runnning through the Antarctic winter. A body is discovered on the ice and it is down to a U.S. Marshall (played competently by the always watchable Kate Beckinsale) to piece together the mystery of precisely what happened. The mystery is tied to a missing Cold War era Soviet Union plane that crashed into the ice decades earlier, which is shown as the movie opens, and the mysterious cargo on board.
Many complained that the movie makers covered the lithe, beautiful Beckinsale in many layers, but this criticism was hardly a valid one. The star strips down to her underwear within moments of her appearance on the screen but the scene is not gratuitous and is not graphic. For the rest of the movie necessity has her all bundled up but this is in keeping with the nature of the frigid weather which is a character unto itself in the movie. One quickly understands why the movie is set in the Antarctic for the movie uses the inhospitable climate as a mechanism with which to ratchet up the suspense and claustrophic feeling of the production.
Overall a satisfying thriller that surprised me in how much I liked it. I had expected to be bored by it but found myself entertained.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Murder in a Very Cold Place..., September 19, 2009

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D. S. Thurlow (Alaska) - See all my reviews
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"Whiteout" is an implausible but enjoyable thriller set at the South Pole. In its opening sequence, set in 1957, a Soviet cargo plane carrying a mysterious cargo goes down somewhere in Antarctica. In the present, the Amundsen-Scott Scientific Station at the South Pole is preparing to rotate out its summer crew and batten down for the winter darkness, just ahead of an approaching storm. US Marshal Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) is preparing to depart, along with her doctor friend (a grizzled but amiable Tom Skerrit).

The discovery of a body on the ice triggers an investigation that leads in short order to an old Soviet scientific station, another dead body, a killer, and the Soviet cargo plane, minus its mysterious cargo. Stetko is assisted in her investigation by the doctor, an aircraft pilot (Columbus Short) and a UN Security Officer (Gabriel Macht). The group, almost inevitably, becomes trapped in an evacuated station with the killer or killers.

Stetko, traumatized by betrayal in a previous assignment told in flashback, finds she can't trust anyone in her present. The action sequences inside and outside the station work well, moving the audience quickly past some plot holes and cold weather implausibilities to a twisty ending. "Whiteout" isn't going to win any awards, but manages to be moderately entertaining. Canada does stand in for the Antarctic with some stunning exteriors.

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