"Whiteout" ** (out of four): An adequate thriller - complete with scares, red herrings and a nonsensical twist-ending - which exploits its Antarctic surroundings for all their worth.

"Whiteout", perhaps sadly, is not an accounting of the origins of the popular correctional fluid. Instead, the title refers to what the script calls an "unholy combination of climatic events" that results in a person not being able to see more than six inches in the distance. Something like this doesn't tend to happen in your average city. It takes a certain locale. One such location is Antarctica which, as a title card helpfully reminds us, is "the coldest, most isolated land mass on Earth". Brrr.

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