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Polar

Name: Polar
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Released: 2019-01-25
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 6.388

★ 6,4 /10 (2,534 Votes)

2019 EN 118 min

Overview

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.

Stream

Release date

25/01/2019

Votes

2,534

Popularity

8.5

If the job doesn't kill you, retirement will.

Genres

Action Crime Drama

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

118 min

Website

www.netflix.com

Mads Mikkelsen

Duncan Vizla

Vanessa Hudgens

Camille

Katheryn Winnick

Vivian

Inga Cadranel

Regina

Fei Ren

Hilde

Ruby O. Fee

Sindy

Matt Lucas

Blut

Robert Maillet

Karl

Anthony Grant

Facundo

Josh Cruddas

Alexei

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Lovina Yavari

Junkie Jane

Ayisha Issa

Jazmin

Pedro Miguel Arce

Pedro

Anastasia Marinina

Evalina

Richard Dreyfuss

Porter

Jill Frappier

Doris

Nia Roam

Ginny

Julian Richings

Lomas

Johnny Knoxville

Michael Green

Roman Lebeau

Donald

Dmitry Chepovetsky

Hotel Clerk

Sofia Grossi

Young Camille

Martin Zolotarev

Evalina's son

Marsha Mason

Store Owner

Ken Hall

Dr. Becker

Calwyn Shurgold

Tech Guy

Emily Debowski

Young Female Server

Jamillah Ross

Nurse Patty

Michael Ayres

Waiter at Fancy Restaurant

Maria Nash

School Kid #1

Moon Mason

School Kid #2

Oksana Zilinskas

School Kid #3

Callum Shoniker

School Kid #4

Ava Augustin

School Kid #5

Connor Laidman

School Kid #6

Robert Clarke

Old Priest at Funeral

Craig Burnatowski

Santa

Joe Delfin

Squash Man

Yana Gold

Pedro's Girl #1

Drew Catherine

Pedro's Girl #2

Brandy Dawley

Stripper

Pastel Supernova

Stripper

Carrie Eklund

Stripper

Lee Villeneuve

Pedro's Heavy #1

Neven Pajkic

Pedro's Heavy #2

Andrei Kovski

Tunnel Guard

Nobuya Shimamoto

Torture Chamber Guard

Matt Birman

Blut's Army Utility

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This is a bit of a strange movie. Part of it feels like a pretty good, dark and gritty thriller, part of it feels like a wannabe Tarantino movie and part of it feels like a comedy. Overall I would classify it as a B-movie but a pretty good B-movie. As strange as the movie is I have to say that I liked it. I kind of watched this movie on a whim. It popped up on my Netflix home screen and I kind of liked the blurb. A type of story that I like. Then I saw that Mads Mikkelsen played the lead role and this sold me on it. I quite like Mads Mikkelsen in these kind of roles. The movie starts off…

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**What a bloody mess.** I the middle of the film, I stopped serveral times and wondered how to salvage this trainwreck, if I was the writer. The Mikkelsen and Hudgens scenes are strong, emotional, well written and acted, and make sense. And Mikkelsen is excellent for this sort of action hero thing - for which there are good action scenes, iconic even. But all of that doesn't tie in with the violent clowns. That part has some clever moments, but really daft hours - like, most of the movie. I wonder how the script came to be - whether a good original story got script-doctored by the w…

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This is something... I think I might've enjoyed it, marginally. I'm not entirely sure how, to be honest. For the most part I was pretty nonplussed by <em>'Polar'</em>, though by the conclusion it kinda grew on me if I'm to be truthful. I kinda seperate the film into two parts, the bits with Mads Mikkelsen & Vanessa Hudgens and the bits without Mads Mikkelsen & Vanessa Hudgens. It's like chalk and cheese, really. Mikkelsen and Hudgens are certainly pros and, by the end, an almost endearing duo. Any scene involving them fluctuates from decent to good, nothing more admittedly but positive s…

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