As the film opens we see a cargo plane full of Russians. But it is 1957. They start to celebrate something, we are not sure what, when one of them carelessly spills the Vodka. As we all know now, spilling Vokda in a plane flying over Antarctica is grounds for pulling weapons and opening fire. Firing without regard for who is being hit and all those unplanned holes in the fuselage. Of course the plane crashes and everyone is killed.
So, what is going on here? This is a 2009 movie. What is up with this focus on the 1957 plane crash? We rightly figure out that somehow it will be woven into the story line to follow.
Kate Beckinsale is US Marshall Carrie Stetko. She had a pretty traumatic experience recently, she had to shoot and kill someone who betrayed her then pulled a gun on her. So this is an easy assignment, at the base in Antarctica, keep the misdemeanors in line.
But a body is spotted. They retrieve it and find out it is one of their scientists. And from the wounds and the disfigurement, he must have been thrown out of a plane. Murder! The first ever recorded in Antarctica.
The movie is very hard to follow at times. And there is an extended chase and fight scene in the "whiteout" that is very hard to follow because we can't tell who is who. But in the end most of it becomes clear. Not a great movie, but entertaining enough for mystery and intrigue is a "B" movie.
SPOILERS: As it turns out the Russian plane was loaded with diamonds of the highest quality. It is not clear why they were flying over Antarctica in 1957. Anyway some find out about the diamonds, locate the plane under 50 years of snow, and get the diamonds. The smuggler turns out to be her friend, Tom Skerritt as the base doctor, John Fury. He needed a few bodies so that he could hide the diamonds for shipment back to the States, so he must have been involved with the murders. At least that is what Natalie thinks. But Carrie discovers that and, with no place to hide, the doctor goes out into the -100 F cold without protection, to allow himself to die.
So, what is going on here? This is a 2009 movie. What is up with this focus on the 1957 plane crash? We rightly figure out that somehow it will be woven into the story line to follow.
Kate Beckinsale is US Marshall Carrie Stetko. She had a pretty traumatic experience recently, she had to shoot and kill someone who betrayed her then pulled a gun on her. So this is an easy assignment, at the base in Antarctica, keep the misdemeanors in line.
But a body is spotted. They retrieve it and find out it is one of their scientists. And from the wounds and the disfigurement, he must have been thrown out of a plane. Murder! The first ever recorded in Antarctica.
The movie is very hard to follow at times. And there is an extended chase and fight scene in the "whiteout" that is very hard to follow because we can't tell who is who. But in the end most of it becomes clear. Not a great movie, but entertaining enough for mystery and intrigue is a "B" movie.
SPOILERS: As it turns out the Russian plane was loaded with diamonds of the highest quality. It is not clear why they were flying over Antarctica in 1957. Anyway some find out about the diamonds, locate the plane under 50 years of snow, and get the diamonds. The smuggler turns out to be her friend, Tom Skerritt as the base doctor, John Fury. He needed a few bodies so that he could hide the diamonds for shipment back to the States, so he must have been involved with the murders. At least that is what Natalie thinks. But Carrie discovers that and, with no place to hide, the doctor goes out into the -100 F cold without protection, to allow himself to die.