Review of Polar (2019) by Siresly — 30 Jan 2019

I liked John Wick, The Punisher, Sin City, The Night Comes for Us. I did not like Polar. It is a bad movie.

Mads Mikkelsen is indisputably a cool guy, the Danish Idris Elba, as it were, and his more contemplative half of the movie with Vanessa Hudgens in the snowy town is pretty ok. Even some of the humor there works. The action scenes, of which there aren't really that many, are also ok. If the movie had remained on that level, it'd be about a 6.

Unfortunately the other half is embarrassing cheesy trash trying so hard and failing so abysmally at creating scenes similar to ones from cool movies made by people with talent. At no point does it even come close. It's seriously Uwe Boll level. Just revolting, absolute hack garbage. The people responsible should feel ashamed and owe Mads an apology. May God have mercy on their souls.