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Loved it so much, I could go on about it for ages. I mean that cinematography??? So good. Colourisation, wardrobe, and background music were all artfully done. Duncan is a great main character and I love that he’s unashamedly morally grey but has depth in his characterisation. I know some people seem to dislike the amount of blood and sex but hey, I think they’re just wimps. The sex? Couldn’t care less for BUT at least it was Mads and seemed to serve the greater purpose of murder! I mean sure Duncan survives way more than he should but so what, it’s an action flick who cares. Only drawback was ultimately the lack of story between Duncan and the girl, they could have explored that more and her backstory wasn’t as well done.

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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Polar it's just a lazy copy of jhon wick, with almost no room for originality. the narrative is just a lazy ass story with some action that can make it fun for someone that's doing something else while watching

There are some excellent fight scenes and cinematography, but the characters are terribly written and hard to watch. The torture and sex could have been good but they added nothing to the story and were obviously just to make the movie "cool". I really enjoyed the action so it's a shame. There's a few videos online that show you all of the kills in Polar - that's a much quicker way to enjoy the movie.

Just my kind of movies. Dark, violent, with though ass main character. Easily best of Netflix production in years.

"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. - Best Performance: Mads Mikkelsen

Very stylised action and two contrasting colour palette. Mads acting was great but tonely inconsistent.

I hated this movie so much I had to create an account here. Horrible waste of time. The movie looked like it had some promise, with an interesting story line, but it turns awful, and the ending is infuriating. I guarantee you say, "That's it?" at the ending. The character in the red/yellow coat is ridiculous, and a lot of the assassins and assassinations are ridiculous, too. So mad I wasted time on this.

Brilliant comic book movie. This movie has a metacritic of 19 and F9 (aka Fast and Furious 9) has a 58. I rest my case... No, not yet... It also has a user review score of 6.4 and F9 has 4.3... ...now i rest my case.

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 !

Polar is a snuff film that wears the veneer of a Hollywood release like a bad mustache.

Mads is literally the only thing carrying this movie. I can’t believe the user score is this high. It must be a bunch of apologists swarming in to defend this absolutely horrible ripoff of John Wick. This is quite possibly one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I’m giving this a 3 because I want my review to stand out from the 0 scores that flood just about everything. This is not worth your time, it’s awful, terrible, trash. It’s a completely worthless piece of garbage. Avoid at all costs. Yes, it even includes a dog for about 5 minutes. Holy hell this is trash, it’s not even “so bad it’s good”. It’s just bad.

Mads M and Matt Lucas compete to steal the show in John Wick clone. Put your brain into neutral and enjoy.

From the very first scene, it's clear the script writer doesn't speak native English. The low-rent camerawork and costuming don't help. A lot of scenes looks like a bunch of Eurotrash rejects from The Matrix stepped into a student film. At one point the evil villain goes over his master plan. He literally just explains how retirement plans work, and then the Matrix rejects say "please explain". I think most 18-year-olds with a decent job can already follow the plot kid, but the director really thinks he sounds like a genius. It's like in a low-rent horror movie when a "scientist" tries to sound smart by reading a page from a gradeschool science book. Director Jonas Akerlund is famous for his music videos which I've personally never thought were very well-made. They're usually just very weird, which works for music. But they weren't very technically well-shot. In a film, all his flaws are amplified. It's sad because Mads Mikkelsen is amazing. Fans of his later performance in Hannibal already know how amazing Mads is as the sort of quiet intimidation that makes for a perfect assassin. He really acts the pants off his role, even while the Eurotrash around him stumble over lines and bad makeup and worse accents. People will say "just turn off your brain". An enjoyable movie shouldn't have to involve absolutely insulting drivel. Here's a quick example. The bad guy needs exactly $29 million or whatever. So he decides to enact a giant plan to steal - wait for it - exactly $29 million. Except to do this, he's going to have to hire an absurd number of top-notch hitmen from around the world. That's going to cost, what, $29 million? So this job - at best - is going to break even? Come on. It isn't hard to write yourself out of this hole either - just make the payoff something absurd like a billion dollars. Why not? Sigh. So this is a really stupid movie with annoying direction. Only watch it if you want to see Mads Mikkelsen kick some ass, and don't be afraid to fast forward the dumb Eurotrash nonsense between the action scenes. You won't miss anything.

Fantastic movie mad Mikkelsen is a total badass in this, story is really cool, and characters are very interesting

Fun ride with mads, no matter what movie he's in it's always great. Hoping they make a sequel.

Madds is the only good thing in the movie. I literally made an account to review this trash movie. Literally a John wick / Tarantino rip off. From the start there is over the top sexualization, so bad it makes the game of thrones nudity/sex look like a kids movie. Couldn't even make it to the end, it's absolute trash.

Отличный фильм!!! просто тема и игра макса на высоте! p.s глядя как издания что не получили бабок минусуют, в лишний раз понимаю, что оценки изданий ничего не весят!

Polar wants to look like John Wick. Except Polar is a Polish shooter in the world of AAA projects. In it seems everything is not submitted seriously, characters cartoon. The script was written by a 5 of the first class, and the characters are completely not specified characters. In general, it turns out that the film is one big parody. And even you watch it to the end not because the actors play perfectly, or the script is so fascinating, but because it is just interesting how this circus will develop further. By the result in the film there is only one element that succeeded - acting Mads Mikkelsen.

Polar is a fun movie, and it seems to embrace that. I feel the reviewers to the left have never experienced a campy shindig before. Polar follows a style of being campy and fun, for the sake of being campy and fun. This even is used to make a couple of hard-hitting emotional moments in the latter half more impactful. It's fun to watch, even if you have a want for deep themes and artsy moments. It feels semi Noir as we follow Mads Mikkelsen in his quest to try and enjoy retirement but there are people who don't want him to. The sexual scenes really shouldn't put you off unless you're over the age of 60, granted I do agree they were probably didn't need to be there, especially the third one. It makes sense but isnt needed. But the movie is just fun to watch, it's presented in a very self-aware style, it acknowledges the craziness of its characters and doesn't even try to justify that, it just goes with it. As the film lets you have fun with over the top action sequences, fun and relatable personalities. Great locations and set pieces, great visual effects and editing. The film is bloody and it isn't shy about showing that. Our hero Duncan is a 50-year old hitman, the best of the best and to prove that he has to kill a lot of people but it stays fresh with those fun action sequences. With those comedic moments, with that fun style of writing, not deep edgy lines about how hurt and tragic Duncan is, but rather having Duncan being an unwilling badass for the first part of the movie, but then he's forced to defend his life and the life of others and that's when you really start to connect with Duncan, he was cool and fun to watch at first then he became badass, emotional and relatable. It takes the Logan route (Great Film btw) **** old veteran trying to escape his old life but Polar is fun, exciting and hard-hitting towards the end while Logan is heartwrenching and an amazing story to watch. Polar won't win awards for it's deep themes or characters with tons of depth, but if you're looking for a fun action film? A film that can laugh with you. A film that will impress you in every way possible? Polar is a great choice, it's nothing to rave over, no reason to rave down to the film store and spend 10$ on but if you're on Netflix definitely atleast try this film. It's 20x better than what it seems, it isn't the pure edgy thriller that it seems. It's fun and makes you emotional towards the end. Even if it's held back slightly by a predictable plot and character moments, it's mindless fun and is at least worth a glance

****/2019/02/06/polar-film-uzerine-konusalim/ Ordinary movie but good commentary

"Polar" doesn't bring anything new to the genre, it's almost same action style as "John Wick", "Machete'' and "Killing Bill'' with a different story. The performance of Mads Mikkelsen was perfect, but his lack of backstory adds a layer of mystery to his character. If you are a fan of action movies that I mentioned above, then you've come to the right place.

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.

Who the hell gave money to make this trash. This is most disgusting film ever.

Keeps you in constant suspense; has amazing characterisation and acting; is filled with surprises around the corner in the narrative, editing, cinematographic and musical departments; and is as visceral as it deserves to be. Unapologetically and stylishly itself. Instant classic. Addendum: I was high when I watched the movie, and when I wrote the review. Your mileage may vary.

With all due respect, the professional critics are very wrong. Mads Mikkelsen is excellent in this antihero role and you could enjoy this movie by only watching him. The story and atmosphere is what you could expect from a comic based movie and the action is very well balanced. IMHO one of the best anti-hero movies out there

Just terrible in every way. Unnecessary over the top violence. Very disappointed.

Polar was so OTT than it is comical. What did I watch, this was a question I was asking myself after 118 minutes. Over the top violence, over the top characters, over the top sexualization of some characters. Over the top villain. It almost felt tacky. I watched it though. I liked some of it. It was definitely worth a watch and I could even watch a sequel but let me tell you this. You need to know what you are getting into here. It is style over logic, it is gore over typical holywood action politeness. It is John Wick on steroids, deformed action movie of highest degree. You need to like over idiotic movies, otherwise you wont go through it. Yeah 5/10.

An extremely hollow violent fantasy that goes absolutely nowhere. Mads Mikkelsen deserves so much better.

Never trust movie critics cause this one is 100% worth it to watch. Love the weirdness of this movie.

I found this movie really fun. Sure it ripped off john wick, but it put it's own spin on it. some humor but the action is over the top and entertaining. very "comic booky".

+Interesting action set pieces +Cast deliver interesting character performances -Plot is below par -Screenplay is weak Had a low expectation going in basically POLAR is a film that clearly wants to adpot the early 2000's graphic novel style a la Sin CIty, 300 but misses a beat as it is clear the filmmaker lacks the chops to pull it off. So we end up with a stale version of this which seems to have all the same ingredients but feels undercooked. It's a shame I feel like if the pacing had been tweaked and maybe a less flamboyant lead villan chosen the film could've hit closer to its target. As it is Polar is a slow plod for a 90 min film (may have fallen asleep a little also).

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.

A ultra-violent action thriller with some fun set-pieces saved only by Mads Mikkelsen's cold assassin. The supporting cast was horrendous and Vanessa Hudgens has a long way to go before she can be considered as anything close to a serious actor. If it wasn't for Netflix and Mads, this is straight to DVD bait

The action is good, story is good, all actors are great in character especially mads, critics as always not knowing what the audience like.

I only give this a 1 out of 10 because it can technically be described as "a movie." It is 1 hour and 58 minutes long and the first action scene wasn't until about an hour in. Unfortunately by that point the movie has showed that it is all style and no substance, except the style is bad. I think Mads Mikkelsen is a great actor, which is unfortunate because this could have been a fun action movie where he's a retired hitman, instead it is not fun, and the villains are way too over the top for my liking. It gets to the point where it is just ridiculous. I don't recommend this movie because it does not have good action sequences, and it has very over the top villains.

A movie that started out with some promise but then shot itself repeatedly over and over again, showering us with unlikable characters as well as needless explicit content and gore.

**** all those whining critics leaving strongly negative reviews. These **** even made me log in this account I forgout about YEARS ago. The movie's great with fine plot progression and its own quirks that make this movie unique. Not to mention good choice of cast and their performance. It's not a perfect 10/10 movie, but trust me, it's worth a try.

This movie is so nauseatingly bad that here is no point even giving it constructive criticism as it is so beyond repair. The only thing cnstructive that can come out of this movie is to show film makers and actors not what to do. It is appauling and offensive.

A mindless clone of John Wick with a much higher degree of implausibility, mindless violence, comic book writing, and not much else. Netflix is carrying on with quantity over quality in 2019.

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If u want to have just mindless fun, and completely switch off, look no further. but storywise, it is not a great movie, Mads Mikkelsen and Katheryn Winnick are the only ones making this movie better. I think the director couldn't decide how to handle this movie, some parts are way over the top comic book movie, but some parts are trying to be darker and more serious. Sadly, because of this the movie is all over the place. With a better director, this movie could have been so much better

This Film is Enjoyable from Start to Finish!! Critics are Way to political these days and don't understand what the fans want these days, I recommend this film to any of my friends, I Enjoyed it from start to finish.

actually i've really enjoyed the film it was fun and verry entertaining, and for real, just dont trust that 19/100 meta score focus on People's ratings and not the rating of sons of w****** that are probobly just payed to put **** reviews i mean some of them rated the film with a 0 .. "pRoFeSiOnAl MoVIe CriTiCs" nothing but a bunch of rats

Is a good film, Mads is a very good actor, but the story is a little bit off and the editing is poor.

A institution of professional killers have a policy of retirement at age 50. When the employee retires, they recieve millions of dollars, and for the company to keep their money and pay their bills they kill every single one that reaches 50 years old, The Black Kaizer is one of them and he will have to fight and shoot to survive. Directed by Jonas Âkerlund and written by Jayson Rothwell. This film is a lot of fun, honestly, it doesn't delivery anything new at all, it is a very known kind of movie that doesn't change anything, but not every film needs to do that, right? The story in here is beyond simple, it is there just to justify the next actions, it is a concept better than anything, a nice and interesting one, not necessary makes sense, but if you don't think much about it, the notion will pull the rope into a fine place. The story is before anything else based on missions, during the film you see some missions that the hitman, Black Kaizer, did in his life and when he gonna reach 50 years old, his company will do anything to kill him, so after his last mission, we see him going under covered and a team trying to find him and kill him. While all of that the montage give us some flashes of something that at first it doesn't make any sense, you not sure if that is a flash foward or a flash back, they keep showing that all the time, you can realise that it is something that torments the character but not until the very end it does make sense, it give us a interesting plot twist, heavy and you can feel some tension, but the way how it was build up was ok, nothing very spetacular, but it is, again, a good twist. The narrative goes mostly in two ways, while showing the main character and stuff around him, it is more dark and raw, but when it changes to the team, it gets full cartoonized, with animation kill and crazy stuff, i like the idea, but how it was made i'm not so sure, there are some moments where they change to one and to another and the scenes in each one are so brief that feels wrong, all the time after some point it goes to crazy to dark, and when they do it, it should feel natural in both, but sometimes it does bother, but not all the time. This is that kind of film with hard sex, giant full of blood violence and drugs all the time, for those that enjoy this is for sure a full plate of fun. One problem with this film is the villain, the company boss, that kind of villain that is fat, have zero athleticism, is arrogant and thinks he is own control all the time, typical **** villain for this kind of film, i couldn't dislike this kind of character more, it is so boring and weak, i believe that they choose this kind of guy to be the villain because he is the completely opposite from what our main guy is, but it is so ridiculous, the character is in a top place in his work, and in every one of his scenes with Katheryn's character i was like, "how is this dumb guy is still on top with she around?" because he is so weak that i can't imagine how she would still be there, Katheryn's character would have knocked him out long time ago. Mads Mikkelsen is really fun to watch, you can totally see that he put his time into his works and incorporate the character pretty fine and you believe in him, you can get angusty in his eyes, along with tranquility, wich makes sense, because he is already doing that for so long, even with all of that, it is possible to feel and see a traumatization by some of his old actions, it is a good interpretation of a not very original character. Katheryn Winnick doesn't have much to do in here, she kinda have some screen time, but what she gotta do is repetitive, in a lot of moments it seems that she is doing the same thing as her last scene, but still, she was ok, she didn't had much material to work with. The action in this film is really good, it is brutal and combined with Mads acting just get better with time. We got a lot of gore scenes with penetrations and blood all the time. There are creativity in some moments and lack of it in others. There are a lot of moments where you can see that someone could have shot in him easily, but come on, right? There are a lot of badass moments for the character, there is one specifically in a cabin that it is really well done, combining the action with the speaking aspect and not being sure of where is who, it is relly raw and fun, there is one or another moment that doesn't made sense, but it was pretty good. Polar is a very fun film, with hardcore sex, brutal and raw violence, and a concept that makes the story keep going, it isn't much original or different from other movies that are like this one, but it is definely a must watch for those who enjoy those aspects that i mention.

"Polar" is the shortened name from the source graphic novel, and boy, is the violence graphic! If you want to desensitize your kid or a friend to human violence, then this ranks in the top 3. The plot is unremarkable, you've seen it dozens of times before, but the violent antics of Duncan (Mads M) and the Suicide Squad-like kill team are just shocking. Vanessa Hudgens attempts to ditch her cute-ness with a gritty drama role but it works about as well as dressing a kitten in a cowboy hat, still cute, sorry, so that's a casting miss and if you dwell on it too much can ruin the otherwise dark, violent vibe throughout. Kadee Strickland or Dawn Olivieri would've been a FAR better choice. Camille (Vanessa) doesn't have the commitment in the end to do what should be done, so we have the germ of the sequel which would include even more of Vanessa, so no thanks.

I've got what i've expected and more. Mads, sex and blood! What is wrong with you if you want something else from such a movie?

I create a account on metacritic just to give this movie justice (bullied by the so called mainstream film critics). Hat off to the director, this one is by far the most unique, bold, shock, ultra violent, action pack to the bone, so so bloody and most stylish movie I have seen for a long time. The gun fight scenes are very creative and clever. The action sequences, OMG, so brutal and some scenes are so just bloody that my reflex just turned my head away. Black Kaiser makes John Wick looks like a Teletubby.