If you've seen The Thing, X-Files: Fight The Future or The Thaw, you'll know that our most southern land mass is the location for much weird goings on. However, there's never been a murder on the continent of Antarctica, according to Kate Beckinsale's new murder mystery Whiteout.
This slick whodunit is produced by Dark Castle, producer Joel Silver's low budget branch of Silver Pictures, and stars a solid group of thespians including Gabriel Macht (The Spirit), Alex O'Loughlin (Moonlight) and Tom Skerritt (looking more and more like a grizzled Kris Kristopherson every year). As you'd expect from Gone In 60 Seconds director, Dominic Sena, the film is stylishly shot.
But its all a bit 'so what'....in a CSI-Antarctica kind of way.
The cast are adequate, but uninspired. The action, what few sequences there are, become old very fast. Worst of all is the murder mystery is obvious right from the start. We all know that the least suspicious character at the beginning of the tale (except the hero) is likely to be the killer...and so it is here.
At least there's a gratuitous 'Beckinsale-undressing-for-a-shower' shot to keep us sustained. Class this one as 'strictly average'.
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