A murder investigation set in the South Pole.
This pedestrian thriller starts with a very interesting and strong concept and while it’s true that such an unusual setting makes things more interesting in the end the filmmakers totally failed to capitalize on it. The South Pole is just, there, they could have easily moved to plot somewhere else.
The setting also look terribly fake to anybody who had seen the real thing, it’s been depicted in a lot of documentaries so I can’t be to only one.
I feel that somebody in the process actually loathed Antarctica because when instead of giving the main lead Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) a personality they gave her a boring guilt laced flashback where she confessed that she went there to punish herself because Hollywood logic says that anybody in his right mind would prefer to live in Miami. This is terrible.
The plot is a mildly interesting whodunit with even a couple of plot twists but is based too much on the stupid and incomprehensible decisions of the protagonist. Speaking about her while Kate Beckinsale, while not a terrible actress, here show the limits of her acting repertoire. I wonder if this is the reason they put so much makeup and hair spray on her but in the end this added another layer of unnecessary fakery to the movie, she is already an extremely beautiful girl and so she would have survived some hair out of place.
To get if you got nothing better to do.
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