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An action thriller starring Mads Mikkelsen as the world's most dangerous assassin should be terrifically entertaining, but Polar proves it's possible to ruin anything if you try.
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All Critics (47) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (38)
Grody to the max. September 17, 2019 | Full Review…
Grody to the max.
Peter Rainer
If it has any redeeming qualities, it chooses to keep them a secret. January 31, 2019 | Full Review…
If it has any redeeming qualities, it chooses to keep them a secret.
Chris Vognar
A gleefully unhinged teenage-boy dream that aims only for hard, shiny surfaces, and stays there. January 30, 2019 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
A gleefully unhinged teenage-boy dream that aims only for hard, shiny surfaces, and stays there.
Leah Greenblatt
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. January 28, 2019 | Full Review…
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.
Keith Uhlich
A gross, stupid and relentlessly ugly film from start to finish. January 25, 2019 | Rating: .5/4 | Full Review…
A gross, stupid and relentlessly ugly film from start to finish.
Peter Sobczynski
This abhorrent actioner is vulgar auteurism at its most depraved. January 25, 2019 | Full Review…
This abhorrent actioner is vulgar auteurism at its most depraved.
Courtney Howard
Polar is a cliched, sloppy mess of sub-standard action and forgettable lines that might entertain someone who has never seen a movie from the last decade of R-rated action cinema. January 8, 2020 | Rating: D | Full Review…
Polar is a cliched, sloppy mess of sub-standard action and forgettable lines that might entertain someone who has never seen a movie from the last decade of R-rated action cinema.
Luke Whiston
The problem is, Åkerlund seems to think he's Quentin Tarantino, injecting gratuitous amounts of violence and torture into a film and calling it art. January 3, 2020 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
The problem is, Åkerlund seems to think he's Quentin Tarantino, injecting gratuitous amounts of violence and torture into a film and calling it art.
Grethe Kemp
Polar doesn't fully understand what a great idea it's stumbled into... it gets distracted by pointless Guy Ritchie-esque stylistic flourishes, a predictably tragic/heartwarming twist ending. August 22, 2019 | Full Review…
Polar doesn't fully understand what a great idea it's stumbled into... it gets distracted by pointless Guy Ritchie-esque stylistic flourishes, a predictably tragic/heartwarming twist ending.
Noah Berlatsky
As just about every element of the film ranges from underwhelming to bad, I would be hard-pressed to recommend Polar to anyone other than hardcore fans of Mads Mikkelsen, and even then, there are countless better action films. August 17, 2019 | Full Review…
As just about every element of the film ranges from underwhelming to bad, I would be hard-pressed to recommend Polar to anyone other than hardcore fans of Mads Mikkelsen, and even then, there are countless better action films.
Jay Krieger
Polar is almost two hours of sensory overload that attempts to be a slick and gritty thriller but comes off as a brash, cluttered and crude film. May 16, 2019 | Full Review…
Polar is almost two hours of sensory overload that attempts to be a slick and gritty thriller but comes off as a brash, cluttered and crude film.
Carolyn Mauricette
'Polar' isn't a total disaster thanks to Mikkelsen, but even he can't turn this film into something watchable. [Full Review in Spanish] March 1, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
'Polar' isn't a total disaster thanks to Mikkelsen, but even he can't turn this film into something watchable. [Full Review in Spanish]
Mikel Zorrilla
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