Polar

Name: Polar
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: January 25, 2019
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 19
Cast: Anastasia Marinina, Anthony Grant, David Jack, Fei Ren, Inga Cadranel

2019

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Overwhelming dislike based on 12 Critic Reviews

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): January 25, 2019 | TV-MA

Starring: Anastasia Marinina, Anthony Grant, David Jack, Fei Ren, Inga Cadranel, Johnny Knoxville, Josh Cruddas, Julian Richings, Katheryn Winnick, Lovina Yavari, Mads Mikkelsen, Matt Lucas, Nia Roam, Robert Maillet, Ruby O. Fee, Sima Fisher, Vanessa Hudgens

Summary: The world’s top assassin, Duncan Vizla (Mads Mikkelsen), aka The Black Kaiser, is settling into retirement when his former employer marks him as a liability to the firm. Against his will, he finds himself back in the game going head to head with an army of younger, faster, ruthless killers who will stop at nothing to have him silenced.

Director: Jonas Åkerlund

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 118 min

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David Griffin

Jan 24, 2019

Mads Mikkelsen and Vanessa Hudgens’ on-screen chemistry bring some much-needed heart to Polar’s bloodsoaked story. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Jan 24, 2019

The film’s horniness and amorality, a slap in the face of fanatically cautious contemporary mores, might’ve been more shocking if it weren’t placed so firmly in quotation marks. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Jan 28, 2019

Polar is pure trash, but the generousness — and, in the final stretch, the poignancy — with which Mikkelsen approaches even the most lurid of the film's conceits at least pushes it toward the top of the garbage heap. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

Jan 25, 2019

A gross, stupid and relentlessly ugly film from start to finish, this may not be the absolute bottom of the barrel in terms of Netflix Originals but nothing else worthy of that title immediately springs to mind. Read full review

Chris Vognar

Jan 31, 2019

If Polar were a teenager, it might be content to chug Mountain Dew while playing first-person shooter games and trolling innocents online. Unfortunately, Polar is a movie, and if it has any redeeming qualities, it chooses to keep them a secret. Read full review

Robert Abele

Jan 24, 2019

Too bad the only thrill you get from all the bloodletting is that you know each cartoony death brings you that much closer to the end credits. Read full review

Emily Yoshida

Jan 23, 2019

If only the issue with Polar, Åkerlund’s fifth feature film, was merely shallowness. Polar is an execrable motion picture, a sad, lint-filled key bump scraped together from the bottom of the post-Tarantino ’90s exploitation baggie. Read full review

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IScarfacEI

Jan 25, 2019

The usual, movie critics being out of touch with the audience of the film. Its a great movie, strong plot progression and smart ideas all around with quite a stylish execution.

33 of 50 users found this helpful3317

joskeprot

Jan 29, 2019

This is a very good movie. It has a the full package of an action movie: sex, drugs, violence and a good plot.
The reason why it has a low score is because the sjw are against the sexscenes.

1 of 9 users found this helpful18

JBG50

Jan 28, 2019

DA **** is up wiv youse "professional film critic" honkies? Yes, the "young killers" are grotesque and obnoxious, and yes, the Matt Lucas character is your stereotypical evil kingpin. But surely that's at least half the point: If "Pulp Fiction" was Jospeh Campbell's "Journey Myth of TheDA **** is up wiv youse "professional film critic" honkies? Yes, the "young killers" are grotesque and obnoxious, and yes, the Matt Lucas character is your stereotypical evil kingpin. But surely that's at least half the point: If "Pulp Fiction" was Jospeh Campbell's "Journey Myth of The Hero" as broad and impetuous brushstrokes, "Polar" is the "paint by numbers" version. But so what? There was a great deal to love and a great deal that engaged me with certain juxtapositions of sound, colour and dialogue in this film, while the narrative arc has an unusual twist in the tail. It's just a movie, for ****'s sake! Try stepping away from the Cohorts Of The Perpetually Offended, and live a little ;)… Expand

1 of 7 users found this helpful16

Wasdkiak

Jan 26, 2019

It's a fun, solid action flick. As others have said, the critics continue to be out of touch and haven't the slightest clue what sorts of films they're watching.

5 of 10 users found this helpful55

kajota

Jan 26, 2019

When did movie critics become such prudes? This isn't a great movie and it's a bit too long but it's certainly worth watching. (especially since it just comes with Netflix account). Parts of the movie look fantastic - especially the winter scenes.

4 of 8 users found this helpful44

playa0789

Mar 10, 2019

Similiar to John Wick has some good action scenes and choreography some of the characters fall flat but overall a decent out of theaters action film.

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mrmonster

Jun 27, 2019

Polar is a movie that involves a lot of torture. However, the real torture is endured by you the audience, when you watch this piece of trash movie. It's a movie that does everything it can to emulate the success of John Wick, and fails in every possible category.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

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