By Kevin Hart
Netflix’s
Polar centers around Damocles, a company so cheap that it would rather kill its employees than pay their retirement. They do employ assassins after all.
Mads Mikkelsen plays a soon-to-be retired assassin named Duncan Vizla AKA The Black Kaiser. All Damocles employees are required to retire at 50, the catch that they don’t know is that if they have no next of kin (why would an assassin have one?) their retirement goes back to the company if they die early. The scheme is of course they order the death of newly retired killers and reap the benefits. They try to do this to Duncan, who for the purpose of the movie is the best assassin ever, so you can guess that it does not go according to plan.