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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Generally favorable reviews based on 202 Ratings

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Movie Details & Credits

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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45	#45 Most Discussed Movie of 2019

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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.

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Remtings

Jan 30, 2019

This is not a film to think about too deeply, which seems to be what has happened looking at the overall score. It's violent, somewhat offensive, unnecessarily shiny, but also a very switch off and go sort of experience. This can be enjoyed...

2 of 6 users found this helpful24

Nico85

Feb 2, 2019

Polar is a fun, stylish movie. Is it a masterpiece? No. Does it want to be a masterpiece? Probably not. I don't see why people can't judge it for what it is, an action-packed, violent, light movie. Do you want to spend a few hours entertained by ludicrous action, over the top assassins andPolar is a fun, stylish movie. Is it a masterpiece? No. Does it want to be a masterpiece? Probably not. I don't see why people can't judge it for what it is, an action-packed, violent, light movie. Do you want to spend a few hours entertained by ludicrous action, over the top assassins and weapons? Watch it! Are you appalled by violence and are looking for an absolute masterpiece with incredible depth and enlightening dialogues? Move on, this is not the movie for you. (nor does it want to be)… Expand

3 of 5 users found this helpful32

KimBongUn

Feb 1, 2019

The first half of this film is so bad that it's great, and the second half was actually pretty decent. The film is a lot of fun if you don't take it too seriously

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paulraised

Jan 26, 2019

This feels like a mix of Sin City and John Wick. The movie plays a lot like a comic book. Action sequences with extreme violence are a lot of fun. However the movie has slow scenes in between the action, and this hurts the pace badly. Some of the sex scenes are borderline porn and awkwardlyThis feels like a mix of Sin City and John Wick. The movie plays a lot like a comic book. Action sequences with extreme violence are a lot of fun. However the movie has slow scenes in between the action, and this hurts the pace badly. Some of the sex scenes are borderline porn and awkwardly long. It would help to cut twenty minutes or so from it. Vanessa Hudgens is very underutilized, but the rest of the cast works well.… Expand

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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.

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