Polar

    Polar
    2019

    Synopsis

    When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.

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    Cast

    • Mads MikkelsenDuncan Vizla
    • Vanessa HudgensCamille
    • Katheryn WinnickVivian
    • Fei RenHilde
    • Ruby O. FeeSindy
    • Matt LucasBlut
    • Robert MailletKarl
    • Anthony GrantFacundo
    • Josh CruddasAlexei
    • Lovina YavariJunkie Jane

    Recommendations

    • 65

      IGN

      Mads Mikkelsen and Vanessa Hudgens’ on-screen chemistry bring some much-needed heart to Polar’s bloodsoaked story.
    • 63

      Slant Magazine

      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.
    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      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.
    • 25

      Consequence

      Every second grates and confuses in equal measure, with nary a thrill of inventive, exciting action filmmaking to break up the monotony.
    • 20

      The Guardian

      Each assassination sequence is so ridiculously protracted and inefficiently constructed that it would make a good running gag if the violence wasn’t the one thing the film seemed to take seriously.
    • 12

      RogerEbert.com

      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.
    • 10

      Variety

      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.
    • 10

      Los Angeles Times

      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.

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