U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko tracks a killer in Antarctica as the sun is about to set for six months.U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko tracks a killer in Antarctica as the sun is about to set for six months.U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko tracks a killer in Antarctica as the sun is about to set for six months.
Craig A. Pinckes
- Aircraft Tech
- (as Craig Pinckes)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe British Flag in the Communications room is hanging upside down. This is an inside joke common among actual real-life South Pole installations. Since they are at the bottom of the world, if you were to look at the globe proper, the flag would appear to be right side up.
- GoofsThe pilot follows the two characters down the hole to the crashed plane. In a search and rescue operation, one person would stay above ground to make sure that everyone can get back for just such emergencies as the hole collapsing.
- Quotes
Man in Hall: Hey Marshal, don't you owe me a strip search?
Carrie Stetko: [about earlier streaking] You were the second guy out the door, right?
Man in Hall: Yeah.
Carrie Stetko: Not interested.
- Crazy creditsThe Warner Bros and Dark Castle logos fade into the aurora australis (southern lights) over the Antarctic sky.
- SoundtracksLaser Love
Written by Marc Bolan
Performed by T. Rex
Courtesy of Spirit Music Group o/b/o ITS Music Publishing BV
Featured review
A great "anti-action-flick" action flick
Ever since The Matrix or thereabouts, mainstream action flicks have merged with fantasy. Of course The Matrix had justification, but we've seen the same superhuman, gravity- defying, too-cool-for-school characteristics attach themselves to even ordinary people in ordinary circumstances, and maybe it's gone a little too far. In WHITEOUT, our heroine is *not* a 10th degree black belt, *not* armed with 200 lbs of ammo, *not* able to do backflips over exploding grenades & such things as we've come to expect in movies. Instead, WHITEOUT gives us a somewhat sober & realistic portrayal of what "action" is like in the real world. It's almost like a throwback to the 70s when special effects played a minor role in films, and the human themes were forefront.
I'm not saying either type of film is inherently better than the other; all I'm saying is if you go into this film expecting "Ultraviolet" or "Resident Evil", you will most certainly be put to sleep within the first half hour. If, instead, you go into it expecting something more like the 70s classics "Coma" or "Stepford Wives" (where the heroine is human and fallible), I think you'll really enjoy this.
A lot of the film's power centers around the heroine's human side, and accordingly she reacts in human ways. When seriously injured, she doesn't brush it off with an "I ain't got time to bleed" macho attitude. She doesn't just take a swig of whiskey and calmly perform surgery on herself like we've come to expect from our action heroes. No, she cries like a baby which is what you or I would do if we just got sliced (admit it, tough guys)! She's not some soulless robot who can kill dozens of people without flinching. She, like a real human, carefully considers the repercussions each time she has to pull the trigger. Granted, this slows the pacing of the action considerably, but hey, welcome to the real world.
With all that in mind, the story is pretty basic as far as murder-mysteries-in-the-Antarctic go. But if you focus on the underlying human story instead of the thrills & chills, it's a refreshing change from the cartoony action flicks of recent years. For similar reality checks, I highly recommend "The Merry Gentleman" (crime drama), "Moon" (scifi), and "Exorcist 3" (horror).
I'm not saying either type of film is inherently better than the other; all I'm saying is if you go into this film expecting "Ultraviolet" or "Resident Evil", you will most certainly be put to sleep within the first half hour. If, instead, you go into it expecting something more like the 70s classics "Coma" or "Stepford Wives" (where the heroine is human and fallible), I think you'll really enjoy this.
A lot of the film's power centers around the heroine's human side, and accordingly she reacts in human ways. When seriously injured, she doesn't brush it off with an "I ain't got time to bleed" macho attitude. She doesn't just take a swig of whiskey and calmly perform surgery on herself like we've come to expect from our action heroes. No, she cries like a baby which is what you or I would do if we just got sliced (admit it, tough guys)! She's not some soulless robot who can kill dozens of people without flinching. She, like a real human, carefully considers the repercussions each time she has to pull the trigger. Granted, this slows the pacing of the action considerably, but hey, welcome to the real world.
With all that in mind, the story is pretty basic as far as murder-mysteries-in-the-Antarctic go. But if you focus on the underlying human story instead of the thrills & chills, it's a refreshing change from the cartoony action flicks of recent years. For similar reality checks, I highly recommend "The Merry Gentleman" (crime drama), "Moon" (scifi), and "Exorcist 3" (horror).
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- rooprect
- Sep 9, 2011
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- Also known as
- Cái Chết Trắng
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- Budget
- $35,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $10,275,638
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,915,104
- Sep 13, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $17,976,667
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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