Movie Reviews: "Whiteout"

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Movie Reviews: Whiteout

To many critics, Whiteout is pretty much of a washout. The film stars Kate Beckinsale in a story that takes place at a South Pole research station.

Several of them note that in the opening of the movie, Beckinsale is seen taking a shower -- probably for no other reason than the fact that she's shown in a parka throughout most of the rest of the film.

A.O. Scott complains in his review in the New York Times that it lacks ... penguins! "I thought every movie about Antarctica had to have penguins," he writes. "Has someone done market research proving otherwise? Is the whole penguin thing over? Or maybe the penguins read the script and told their agents to pass. Smart birds."

Kyle Smith's review in the New York Post is headed "Cold Turkey." He comments: "The severely non-thrilling thriller Whiteout moves like winter in Antarctica. Who the flake greenlit this blobby blur?"

And Dan Zak concludes in the Washington Post, "Whiteout is so staggeringly bad that it achieves a kind of transcendent poetry. It's ignorant of how things are in the real world, of what makes a thriller a thriller, of why people seek out entertainment."

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