Kate Beckinsale is a good actress but even her biggest fans would have to admit that the movies she's done since moving to Hollywood haven't been great. She hasn't had a breakout hit apart from Underworld and the less said about Pearl Harbor, Van Helsing and Vacancy the better.
Well, that breakout film could be Whiteout. Based on a series of graphic novels by Greg Rucka, this is a new entry in the under-utilised genre that is Antarctic whodunnits. Beckinsale plays a U.S. Marshal reluctantly stationed in Antarctica at a research centre (sounds like the world's worst job, right?). Three days before she's due to leave for the States, a body is found and she finds herself conducting a murder investigation. But winter is only days away and she must identify the killer before months of darkness close in....
I like the sound of this one! It's not out until September but you can see a poster for it here:
http://www.ioncinema.com/movie/id/537/whiteout
August 06, 2008, 03:35:38 AM
