WHITEOUT

Guy first again...

Graphic novels are a popular thing to adapt into movies these days. Seems like if they've sold semi-well, then a studio will be interested in it. The time has come to "Whiteout", a graphic novel I've never heard about (not a big fan of those anyway). Maybe if I had read the original material before watching this I might have enjoyed it... but I doubt it.

There was one scene that springs to mind now when I'm writing this. Beckinsale is out in the snow without gloves. She's being chased by a dude with an ice axe. To get away she needs to go through a door. She puts her gloveless hand on the handle that was made of metal. In letting go her skin rips from her hands. When I saw this scene I have to admit that I cringed. Sadly this was the only memorable scene in the movie.

When I saw the trailer for this the first time I actually looked forward to this movie a little bit. This again proves that you can't judge a movie by its trailer.

Beckinsale is great and she was more than qualified to carry the vampire action movie "Underworld". So now directors and producers seem to think that she's a go to girl when it comes to thrillers and suspense. In this film however she seems bored and just out of it.

There was some stupid flashbacks in the movie as well that I could have lived without.

Guy's Rating: Don't bother.

Girl's last again...

So it comes out - Kate Beckinsale is just a hot woman with no range (sorry Guy). She should have stuck with Fantasy movies, where nerds wouldn't care that her face is frozen in the same position: eyebrows knotted together, teeth showing, anger looking like fright looking like sad looking like frustration. I have yet to see her smile... and not look like it is hurting her.

Besides that little revelation, the movie gave me nothing else. It was boring, the plot was convoluted without substance, which means the writer was grasping at straws after coming up with the "First murder in Antarctica" log line, and least of all, I didn't give a shit about any of the characters. Sorority Row was a better thriller than this... Yup, I just wrote that.

Girl's Rating: I liked the poster, but Kate should get back in that leather cat suit where she belongs.