How the fuck did they work a shower scene into a movie where everyone wears parkas all the time?

Whiteout is in no means a terrible or even bad film. It does suffer from a few issues that distance it from the viewer, but never enough that should make you want to turn it off. The acting is on the whole quite good, with standout performances by Kate Beckinsale and Tom Skerritt. The frozen air ends up being the most dangerous threat in the film, and despite making it hard to see what is going on while characters are outside, allow the film to be fresh enough to warrant a watch.

Very old school thriller - but not in a good way. Cliché-ridden, predictable and worst of all: the action was dull. I liked Beckinsale and Skerritt. It seems people agree that the only reason for this movie to exist is the shower scene. Wait, that's enough for me, actually.

this is what they should have used on the script this was horrible...if you dont know in the first ten mins who the bad person is...you need to watch more movies...a wanna be thing feel to a horrible dull movie...

Not much to the movie. Nothing really to make it bad, but nothing to make it good.

Not a really involved plot but it did have a surprise at the end that I really should have picked up on from earlier clues +3 for that.

The opposite of clever.

Antarctica is the perfect setting for a crime mystery. In this film it is completely wasted. You never feel that the characters are on the South Pole and the action scenes are confusing and boring. The mystery is achingly standard and I guarantee that everybody can guess who the villain is within the first 10 minutes. Beckinsale is gorgeous as always, but even here the movie has problems, due to her bad haircut :-)

a lousy thriller taking place in antarctica... you may predict what s going to happen on the first milisecond

"It's a wonder Whiteout isn't in 3D, what with its initial onslaught of in-your-face flying propellers, crashing planes, and a lingering close-up of Kate Beckinsale stripping to her skivvies." - Nick Schager

I actually enjoyed it; maybe because I saw it during a 10 hour flight.

Average in all respects. Underwhelming ending, would have been better if it had ended 15 minutes earlier.

55 Points for the sexiest woman alive...0 for this crap.

shallow and bad acting

Not only is it boring and badly written, the director can't even get anything out of the promising surroundings. When Kate puts her clothes back on in the beginning, you can stop watching.

Imagine movie The Thing without the thing. That's Whiteout. Except the visuals were pretty lame. There was one more or less plausible fight in the blast, but that's it. Boring story, lots of repeating scenes and bad acting. Keep away. If Beckinsale's acting skills in this movie were the shower scene in the very beginning, it was much.

Other than the finger part, I only felt uncomfortable because of this films stupidity and predictability.

Some clunky acting & dialogue has been left in & that's esp. noticeable in what's more of a character-driven mystery than an action thriller.An opening cheesecake shot of Beckinsale only highlights her miscasting. Lackng any rough edges she seems2 willowy & soft-spoken2 b a US Marshall. Lastly: 1 tracking shot through the compound does not equal a sense of place & its people (e.g. Is the doctor Beckinsale's only friend?What does she do all day?) 4 what it's worth: it does get better as it goes.

I upped it 5 points due to some pretty hot Beckinsale bum. But I hold that this flick underwhelms due to sub-par dialogue, an ending that fell flat on its face with a pretentious attempt at an epic death scene, as well as the tacked-on back-story for Beckinsale's character, which served no purpose but to extend the flick and then be tossed aside as a lame explanation for why Beckinsale doesn't trust the UN guy at the beginning. Cudos for the killer's death though, it was pretty badass.

Actually it's fairly interesting until it approaches the climax where it falls flat and comes apart looking like a spook movie. Even then it doesn't deserve the 7% at RT.

It's not the abortion that apparently RT (according to what another user says) thinks it is, really. There's very little great about this besides a hot view of Beckinsale, and some decent views of Antarctica. But it's not awful. It was entertaining enough despite how inconsistent it was and how little you could invest yourself in these people.

Disturbingly violent thriller. On a good note, the gorgeous Beckinsale delivers her obligatory disrobing and shower scene very early in the film so, guys, if you doze off in the final third...you're good.

Run-of-the-will mystery in an out-of-the-way locale, a South Pole research center about to the snowed under for the season, and already buffeted by some blinding blizzards, partially obscuring the action. Kate Beckinsale, buffeted herself by some terrible sepia flashbacks to a past trauma, is the capable but not invulnerable detective.

Bad Movie

Entertaining - yet, utterly predictable - fluff. Loses points for not being able to suspend disbelief (you've established a -50 degree environment... stick with it... freezes coffee in no time flat, but does nothing to bare skin exposed for minutes???)

This film never allows itself to get going. A murder mystery unfolds as Carrie Stetko has flashbacks to another mystery she was a apart of. A killer on the loose in Antarctica, through the cold and the freezing temperatures, they run around looking for evidence as to what has been taking place. All the while they play a chase game on ropes that run from building to building. Not so thrilling and a bit predictable as it progresses. Still though for some reason I just cant hate the film.

it's not a complete failure, but still a second rate thriller that's not worth your time. nothing particularly interesting except beckinsale's body--but you already knew that.

i agreed with everyone Kate Beckinsale's shower scene in the beginning is the only thing worth watching in this bad movie.

The antarctica location is interesting but it is wasted with rather cliche characters and poor two dimensional acting from most of the cast. On the positive side of things the production values are high so if you like watching a highly polished mediocre "whodunit" thriller for a night of drinking it fulfills that criteria. The end is totally laughable and Dominic Sena's use of flashback sequences just screams 3rd rate Hollywood trash director.

Crap thriller complete with the seemingly omnipotent killer who's in fact just some regular guy that's given extraordinary super villain powers from the magical entity known as plot device. It features a twist at the end that adds absolutely nothing to the story at all. Combined with bad acting (why Kate Beckinsale makes people flock to the theatres is beyond me) you've got a real stinker. General idea was neat though, I'll admit.

good Directing and Acting.

Despite the unique setting, this is a relatively bland mystery/thriller. The central plotline is not very interesting at all, and none of the thrills are very thrilling. For a non-horror film, there was also quite a bit of gore, including an (unintentionally?) disturbing amputation scene. Also, this is one of the few big budget films I've seen lately that had distractingly bad editing, a lot of scenes were missing basic elements like establishing shots.