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Article: 'Whiteout' offers chilling special effects, not-so-hot plot.(Movie Times)(Movie review)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- September 11, 2009
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Byline: Robert W. Butler; The Kansas City Star
Early in "Whiteout," a murder mystery set in a South Pole research station, a federal marshal played by Kate Beckinsale strips down and takes a shower.
Why? No particular reason. But enjoy it while you can, fellas. She'll spend the rest of the film in a parka.
That scene makes about as much sense as anything else in Dominic Sena's thriller.
Beckinsale plays Carrie Stetko, who requested this remote, easy assignment after a particularly ugly on-the-job incident. Her main duties involve riding herd on several dozen young scientists who behave like college freshmen during orientation week.
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