Kate Beckinsale's Whiteout is awful, critics almost unanimously agree. Based on the 1998 comic book of the same name, the film follows a U.S. deputy marshal, played by Kate Beckinsale, who investigates a murder in Antarctica, three days before the antarctic winter, where the falling snow grows so dense that it is impossible to see anything but white (thus the title).
As interesting as the premise may seem, the film has been universally panned by critics everywhere.
The New York Post called the film a "severely nonthrilling thriller." Salon.com was equally disappointed, saying "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." The film was also criticised for its easy-to-predict plot twists. "Even in a whiteout," wrote Richard Roeper, "You can see the plot twists coming." "I kept hoping for something unexpected to show up, like a killer penguin," wrote the Daily Mail, "but it never did."
However, that's not to say that Whiteout didn't get a few good -- well, lukewarm -- reviews. The film was "the most surprising thrill ride of the summer, in that it is adequately thrilling," wrote Fred Topel of CanMag.com. "And I didn't expect that."
