@strangebedfellows said:

Managed half an hour of this and I deserve a medal. It plays as an episode of Gotham directed by Quentin Tarantino with the irony and style replaced by vulgarity and stupidity. The director seems to have an obsession with female buttocks - the "actors" are anything but and somebody should tell Matt Lucas that being fat and acting freakish is getting very old. I have no idea what Mads is doing in this - I guess he either has a strange sense of humour or he needed the money.

Here is an interview with Mads & the director, Jonas Åkerlund:

https://screenrant.com/mads-mikkelsen-polar-netflix-jonas-akerlund-interview/ (print version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz0dbIs9Ano (video version)

Thank you. Just read it - yeah - he needed the money !!! One thing about this movie that puzzled me - it's all about not having to pay his retirement fund - as if he would have any remedy if they didn't - how could he take them to court? Also once this had been done to one - why would anybody else work for him? I take stuff to seriously I suppose but I do need some level of plausibility !! Bye Bye Chilone - you and your personal attacks are on ignore.

@strangebedfellows said:

Managed half an hour of this and I deserve a medal. It plays as an episode of Gotham directed by Quentin Tarantino with the irony and style replaced by vulgarity and stupidity. The director seems to have an obsession with female buttocks - the "actors" are anything but and somebody should tell Matt Lucas that being fat and acting freakish is getting very old. I have no idea what Mads is doing in this - I guess he either has a strange sense of humour or he needed the money.

Maybe don't act like a "teen" who watches 30 minutes of a movie and then makes idiotic comments about it.

MOVIE IS VIOLENT AND LOUS AND AWESOME...GROW UP LESS .

The so called A-team were petulent, immature, utterly enefficient, and I'd rather every scene they were in was renoved from the film altogether. Along with the head idiot, except for his heady demise.

The cliche set up - one last heist/gig/hit, is so tired. The one man against them all thing is too.

The last scene is also rather strange - if she could track him down, why should she need his help to track anyone else down? Speaking of which, wasn't he working for the same outfit whose head lost his head?

Also, for a hit man to leave a paper trail that seemingly every one who might ever have wanted to find him could, that's pretty sloppy.

And when the girl, feigning car trouble, got into the truck with him, she could have whacked him right there, done. Having to go through that stupid elaborate set reminded me of Dr. Evil saying to his son Scott, "You just...don't get it, do you? You don't."

Yeah, there were some gritty scenes. I'd sure love to see more of that glove-controlled gun array. And, with Richard Dreyfus' character in need of a comeuppance, Vivian never seen being whacked, and that open ending about the two teaming up to hunt down it a new villain, it seems Netflix is hoping the ratings justify a sequel (although, by the credits for the two main actors, I don't see a sequel in production to-date).

Mindless action - 6/10

Characters - 2/10

Lame attempt at Tarantino/Sin City slickness - 0/10

Wow, people brutalising this. I enjoyed it. Similar criticisms could be levelled at basically every action movie, but the stories in these kinds of action movies are mainly vehicles to show off slick action, and I personally found this film did that in spades. Was it John Wick 3? No. But it wasn't that far off. It kind of reminded me of Equilibrium. It's satisfying to see a guy head and shoulders above any of his major rivals taking them down while hardly breaking a sweat. Just my two cents, it was never going to be for everyone...

But every one has a right to their own opinion without being personally insulted. I am glad you enjoyed it Benedict - to each his own.