Film Review--Whiteout
WHITEOUT
starring Kate Beckinsale, Tom Skerritt, Gabriel Macht, and Admiral Byrd as "The Beav"
She is just three days from the end of her tour of duty, but a U.S. Marshall (Beckinsale) is stuck in Antarctica when the first ever murder on that continent is discovered. But there's a big storm coming in and there's the added angle of a downed Soviet plane with a treasure on board. Can she get by with an old doctor (Skerritt), a strange UN official (Macht), and a token pilot in order to find the killer?
I like thrillers. I really do. But I'm going to need to take a break from them after this one. That's not to say that this is a bad film, it's just such a by-the-numbers, blase and formulaic story that I'm a bit turned off by the genre. Must every thriller feature a "cop on the edge, haunted by their past?" Must every thriller isolate their characters in a locale and make it impossible for them to get out of? Must every thriller have a "twist?" Let me tell you something, the twists are woefully easy to spot these days. Just imagine the last thing you'd expect and whoomp...there it is. I'm yawning even as I type this. I don't think it possible for me to be any more bored by the conventions of this genre. The only reason "Whiteout" escapes my lowest rating is that they get Kate Beckinsale naked (though not enough is shown to get it an "R") in the first 15 minutes. Yep you know it's lackluster when you need a shower scene in Antarctica. Not that I'm complaining. Kate's on my Top 10 list.
Sigh. Greg Rucka's a good writer. This could have and should have been better.
RATING: AIOK (Aaaeeehhh, It's OK)
starring Kate Beckinsale, Tom Skerritt, Gabriel Macht, and Admiral Byrd as "The Beav"
She is just three days from the end of her tour of duty, but a U.S. Marshall (Beckinsale) is stuck in Antarctica when the first ever murder on that continent is discovered. But there's a big storm coming in and there's the added angle of a downed Soviet plane with a treasure on board. Can she get by with an old doctor (Skerritt), a strange UN official (Macht), and a token pilot in order to find the killer?
I like thrillers. I really do. But I'm going to need to take a break from them after this one. That's not to say that this is a bad film, it's just such a by-the-numbers, blase and formulaic story that I'm a bit turned off by the genre. Must every thriller feature a "cop on the edge, haunted by their past?" Must every thriller isolate their characters in a locale and make it impossible for them to get out of? Must every thriller have a "twist?" Let me tell you something, the twists are woefully easy to spot these days. Just imagine the last thing you'd expect and whoomp...there it is. I'm yawning even as I type this. I don't think it possible for me to be any more bored by the conventions of this genre. The only reason "Whiteout" escapes my lowest rating is that they get Kate Beckinsale naked (though not enough is shown to get it an "R") in the first 15 minutes. Yep you know it's lackluster when you need a shower scene in Antarctica. Not that I'm complaining. Kate's on my Top 10 list.
Sigh. Greg Rucka's a good writer. This could have and should have been better.
RATING: AIOK (Aaaeeehhh, It's OK)
posted by Jon Nichols at 8:55 PM
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