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Rating: 3.6/5
Review: "Whiteout movie review"
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It is not so bad as what the critics have critise about it. With the harsh rating of 6% in Rotten Tomatoes, it is not so bad and even manages to entertain. Whitout manages to thrill me with its suspense and mystery. Though I have seen better intense thrillers like Fracture, one of the best thrillers I have seen, the suspense still is intense. With the runtime of 1 hour and 41 minutes, the pace moves at a not very fast or slow speed, the pace is just alright. It is an interesting mystery thriller with some well-designed action.
The story: Kate Beckinsale dons some heavy winter clothes after the tight suit from Underworld. Her acting is convicing enough as an U.S. Marshal. Gabriel Macht, from The Spirit, does not deliver his best performance, his acting is dull and does not follow with much expressions. Kate's character, Carrie, discovers a dead body at Antarctica and goes to investigate the mystery murder. A killer appears. More dead bodies. More mystery. And then a twist. The movie is more intense with its thrilling but unoriginal music. How many times I have heard the same tone of music before? There is not much action. There are two major action sets, the gun play at the airplane at the beginning of the movie and the stormy fight scenes at almost the end of the movie.
Overall: I had good fun. It may be one of the best thrillers but at least I had entertainment. This is not the type of mystery that makes you think, you just wait for the story to unfold. Simple. Based on the graphic comic I have not seen. Note: It is edited for a PG rating but I have no idea what is cut.
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DVD special features-Rating: 1/5
This DVD is almost bare bone. There are only deleted scenes (4 minutes) which are background information for the movie. Nothing interesting but worth a watch. Warner Bros. is throwing DVD out of the window, the DVDs usually get nothing except one special feature like deleted scenes or one featurette and Blu-Ray gets a whole lot of special features.

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