...but not for this one. I've spent many seasons working in Antarctica, and I gotta say - It may be entertaining for people who have never been to Antarctica before and have no intention of doing so, but truthfully, this movie sort of makes a mockery out of the whole operation down here. Very misleading as to how things really are here. I realize it's only a movie, but the writer could have AT LEAST done some fact finding and gotten a few things accurate. I'll just name a few examples...
You can't just jump into an airplane and hop from camp to camp whenever you want, and NEVER during a winter, unless it's a well coordinated med-evac. They don't even keep a plane at any of the stations during the winter.
There are NO outlying camps open during the winter (those are all dismantled prior to leaving at the end of summer; referred to as "camp pullout"). Vostok is not a U.S. camp and we don't routinely visit there.
People don't talk to each other like that on the radio - especially not with the aircraft.
The National Science Foundation Station Manager is the only U.S. Marshall here, but the primary role of that person is not as a Marshall and they don't have a partner running around from camp to camp investigating crimes and policing people. There is an NSF manager at each of the three main U.S. bases here.
UN and/or FBI law agents don't parachute into any base in Antarctica, or at least not the U.S. bases, either announced or unannounced.
There is NO giant glass map of Antarctica propped up in the middle of a big communications room, ANYWHERE in Antarctica.
Your skin will not instantly peel off your hands in a bloody mess if you touch cold metal.
It's already been pointed out about the main character not wearing a face mask outside. Also, we put up ropes if we're expecting less than 100 ft of visibility in a snow storm, but we don't keep them up all the time, and we don't carabine ourselves to them. I've never seen a person picked up and hurled through the air by winds, and we get some high winds here.
I could go on and on, but never mind. It's just a horrible movie that I couldn't finish watching. It doesn't even rate as a B movie for me. It gets a total F. Too bad because I really like most of the actors in this movie. I hope at least they had fun making it.
You can't just jump into an airplane and hop from camp to camp whenever you want, and NEVER during a winter, unless it's a well coordinated med-evac. They don't even keep a plane at any of the stations during the winter.
There are NO outlying camps open during the winter (those are all dismantled prior to leaving at the end of summer; referred to as "camp pullout"). Vostok is not a U.S. camp and we don't routinely visit there.
People don't talk to each other like that on the radio - especially not with the aircraft.
The National Science Foundation Station Manager is the only U.S. Marshall here, but the primary role of that person is not as a Marshall and they don't have a partner running around from camp to camp investigating crimes and policing people. There is an NSF manager at each of the three main U.S. bases here.
UN and/or FBI law agents don't parachute into any base in Antarctica, or at least not the U.S. bases, either announced or unannounced.
There is NO giant glass map of Antarctica propped up in the middle of a big communications room, ANYWHERE in Antarctica.
Your skin will not instantly peel off your hands in a bloody mess if you touch cold metal.
It's already been pointed out about the main character not wearing a face mask outside. Also, we put up ropes if we're expecting less than 100 ft of visibility in a snow storm, but we don't keep them up all the time, and we don't carabine ourselves to them. I've never seen a person picked up and hurled through the air by winds, and we get some high winds here.
I could go on and on, but never mind. It's just a horrible movie that I couldn't finish watching. It doesn't even rate as a B movie for me. It gets a total F. Too bad because I really like most of the actors in this movie. I hope at least they had fun making it.