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- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 58 m
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 58 m
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.
Directed By: Jonas Åkerlund
Written By: Jayson Rothwell, Víctor Santos
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 58 m
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 58 m
Polar
19
6.4
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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.
Directed By: Jonas Åkerlund
Written By: Jayson Rothwell, Víctor Santos
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
19
17% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
17% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
67% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
19
17% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
17% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
67% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Mads Mikkelsen and Vanessa Hudgens’ on-screen chemistry bring some much-needed heart to Polar’s bloodsoaked story.
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 241 User Ratings
6.4
60% Positive
145 Ratings
145 Ratings
18% Mixed
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
22% Negative
53 Ratings
53 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 241 User Ratings
6.4
60% Positive
145 Ratings
145 Ratings
18% Mixed
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
22% Negative
53 Ratings
53 Ratings
A strong 10, who cares if it's like John Wick?? Who cares if the bad guy is the stereotypical fat and coward guy?? The "professional critics" are far from being objective. That's why the user review has better rate than the critics. I loved the movie, the plot, the final twist in it. Now I want a sequel. Mads Mikkelsen is, as always, flawless in his performance.
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Just my kind of movies. Dark, violent, with though ass main character. Easily best of Netflix production in years.
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Every second grates and confuses in equal measure, with nary a thrill of inventive, exciting action filmmaking to break up the monotony.
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.
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.
Gratuitous sex, gruesome torture, copious amounts of gore, and garish imagery populate the picture. Those qualities might be reason enough for some to watch, although a great many others would do well to scroll right past it on their Netflix feeds.
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.
"Polar" tries to be a flashier, funnier version of "John Wick". Emphasis on the word "tries". Despite its desperate attempts to be cool or humorous, I more often found myself laughing at the film rather than with it. A completely hollow experience that by its end only leaves you feeling sorry for Mads Mikkelsen.
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Best Performance: Mads Mikkelsen
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Dans ce « polar », on a surtout bien des clichés comme celui du tueur d’élite désireux de prendre une retraite (bien méritée…) mais qui doit se heurter à l’insu de son plein gré à la drôle d’humeur de son employeur, lequel ne voit certainement pas d’un bon oeil la prime de départ… qu’il lui doit !
En vérité, rien de très sérieux là-dedans, sauf vers la fin via un rebondissement ou plutôt une révélation moisie de derrière les poubelles dont la grognasse insipide Vanessa Hudgens se fait la porte-parole… ridicule de bout en bout, d’ailleurs ! Par contre, on apprécie la belle Katheryn Winnick dans ce rôle secondaire de femme fatale d’une ironie cynique bien agréable. Elle seule et bien entendu l’excellent Mads Mikkelsen (comme d’habitude) tirent un brin leur épingle du jeu dans ce film qui se traîne un tantinet quand même.
Un film qui peut faire sourire de temps en temps par ses excentricités et sa violence exagérée, lesquelles sont nettement inspirées des tarantinades et autres ritchieries volontiers provocatrices qui plaisent tant aux ados (idiots). Notons par ailleurs que l’on voit ici et là de la chair plus ou moins fraîche de bonnasses plus ou moins bonnes mais nous ne ferons pas la fine bouche à cet égard, car… c’est plutôt rare par les temps qui courent !
La réalisation est dans l’ensemble très moyenne, pour ne pas dire pire, la faute à un montage trop souvent cut dans l’action (sanglante certes) qui aurait mérité bien plus d’attention. Souvent débile, parfois drolatique (mais rarement) très brutal et un peu voyeur, « Polar » reste ce qu’il est, à savoir un gros nanar !
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Production Company
Constantin Film,
Dark Horse Entertainment,
Netflix
Release Date Jan 25, 2019
Duration 1 h 58 m
Rating TV-MA
Tagline If the Job doesn't kill you, Retirement will.
Awards
Leo Awards
• 1 Nomination
