Film

Whiteout

Cert: 15

Description: Three days before she is due to leave Antarctica, US Marshal Carrie Stetko discovers the body of a man, miles from her camp. Further examination reveals that the victim was murdered and so Carrie reluctantly leads her very first homicide case. With winter closing in, the US Marshal races against time to unmask a killer in her midst. Consequently, she threatens to expose a dark secret buried deep beneath the ice for decades.

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Dir: Dominic Sena.

Cast: Alex O'Loughlin, Gabriel Macht, Kate Beckinsale, Columbus Short, Tom Skerritt

Country: US.

Year: 2009.

Duration: 101mins

Whiteout is dull and disappointing

Thriller: Whiteout

11 Sep 2009

Dominic Sena’s Antartica-set thriller stars Kate Beckinsale as an anguished, about-to-quit cop embroiled in one last job.

Beckinsale has the eyes of an ingénue and the eyebrows of a villainess. The film is more straightforward. “Always a dull moment around here,” quips her medical friend, Doc (the fantastically craggy Tom Skerritt).

Always a dull moment — for all the red herrings, cat-and-mouse chases and whirling snow, that’s Whiteout to a tee.. Beckinsale has the eyes of an ingénue and the eyebrows of a villainess.

The film is more straightforward. “Always a dull moment around here,” quips her medical friend, Doc (the fantastically craggy Tom Skerritt).

Always a dull moment — for all the red herrings, cat-and-mouse chases and whirling snow, that’s Whiteout to a tee.