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Whiteout movie review

US marshal Carrie Stetko is about to conclude her job in the antartica. While she’s getting ready to get on the plane a call for help is received from another scientific post, and what used to be a simple, boring life in the south pole turns around and becomes a life threatening investigation.

It’s an entertaining mistery movie. Why wouldn’t anyone be curious about the first murder in Antartica? You also get to see wonderful landscapes (which by the way, belong to Manitoba, Canada) and of course, a lot of snow. The murder brings memories to marshal Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) and with that we get to know her past, and the reason why she asked to be assigned to the south pole. The story evolves in a way that you get a couple of misleading hints on who the killer is, but you don’t get to know that until the very end. An old russian cargo plane is found burried under 20 feet of snow. Seems like the pilots and some mercenary passengers fought each other to death to get the contents of a box, now empty. You also get a wrong lead on what the content of the box is.

Kate Beckinsale looks beautiful. She had it easy because she keeps a frawn face half of the movie (she had a lot of practice you know, from the Underworld movies). The couple of times she smiles make the whole movie worth it. Tom Skerritt is… Tom Skerrit; great guy, great actor, looks like every roll he plays is made specifically for him. Gabriel Macht plays the flat character of U.N. investigator Robert Price. This roll would have played better in the hands of Columbus Short, who gives life to pilot Delfy.

It’s a well spent ticket. Go seet it!

Cheers!

Whiteout trailer

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