Review: Polar

What if John Wick was a B series?

Critical
After the awesome trailer, my mission was to watch this John Wick with Mads Mikkelsen sauce. Result to the height?

Delirium in madness
If apparently, Polar looks a lot like John Wick with a hint of Snake Plissken. The reality is different. Unlike John Wick who had, surprisingly and brilliantly, managed to keep a serious tone despite a pitch worthy of a nanar, Polar leaves precisely, head forward and more, in the series B. Just the beginning of the film illustrates it. Potache humor, ass (and not ugly – if you want to see Lagertha snapping the stripper’s butt, it’s here and nowhere else), violence and a graphic style pronounced (at the comic book, could say because of its origins). Naturally, those who expected the finesse (relative, all the same) of an adventure of Baba Yaga, well, they are ejected (and badly).

In my case ? I appreciate this kind of reels. Besides, I’m pretty easy humor level. The result, with the movie of the day, I laughed a lot of times. It must be said that sometimes it goes so far in the delirium that you have to take pleasure. This guy who tries to escape to the team of killers through the window. Beautiful fall. In both senses of the word. Are we talking about this hilarious nod to John Wick? Reading some of the critics who disassembled the film, I wondered if they realized that the over the top side was just voluntary. Or, they do not have humor. It’s sad, but you have to.

Why does this look so serious?
Remains the question of action scenes that are far from memorable if we except the final meeting. The latter is simple and concise, but effective and badass. In short, like his hero. For the rest, fortunately, the hemoglobin discharge makes them cooler than average, but it does not prevent it is difficult to get excited. Rest that Mads Mikkelsen! To see him naked, to lie down in the snow to take a sniper rifle and whack a peon is priceless.

As for the contribution of the character of Vanessa Hudgens, I find that it falls a bit like a hair on the soup. Ok, that gave a touching passage, but it does not fit well with the spirit of the rest of the reel. This is perhaps what made some critics doubt who no longer knew which way to dance. If it is, the director did not know either and used all his feet left to fart mouth. At least it was funny.