YMMV / Polar

• Awesome Music: The film's soundtrack was produced by deadmau5, bringing a rich, synth-heavy score that conveys as much cold tension as pulse-pounding intensity.
• Catharsis Factor: Considering how completely vapid, gaudy, and arrogant Mr. Blut and the rest of Damocles' assassins are, it's incredibly liberating to see Vizla wipe them all out without too much difficulty.
• Complete Monster: Mr. Blut runs Damocles Industries, and has his retired employees assassinated so he can collect their pensions to make his company worth more for a buyout. He tries to have retired assassin Duncan Vizla killed so he can collect his pension in millions, first by laying a trap for him in Minsk, then sending his A-Team to murder him in his own home. Capturing Vizla, Mr. Blut proceeds to torture him for three days straight. On the fourth day, Vizla's birthday, he intends to rape Camille, Vizla's neighbor whom Mr. Blut kidnapped and drugged, and force Vizla to watch.
• Critical Dissonance: The movie hasn’t been doing well with critics, with Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 24% critical score and many of them citing it as a John Wick rip-off. However, it has fared better with audiences, earning a 72% audience score, garnering praise for its action sequences and Mads Mikkelsen’s performance.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Vizla accidentally shooting his new dog he had just named? Tearjerking. Groaning and letting out a disappointed "Shit"? Followed by him replacing it with two goldfish? Extreme Black Comedy.
• Fashion-Victim Villain: The loud, colorful outfits the A-team and Mr. Blut often wear have actually been criticized for making them look overly-cartoonish and tonally at odds with the rest of the movie.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The "it's funny" conversation that Camille and Duncan have in the diner. Because they both remember each other from when Duncan killed her family.
• Hollywood Homely: Vanessa Hudgens' stunning looks are downplayed a lot by dressing her in baggy clothes and not having her put on any make-up. This makes sense from an in-story perspective since her character is reeling from a past trauma.
• Jerkass Woobie: Duncan Vizla. Yes, he's a coldblooded killer with No Social Skills, but he is clearly haunted and ashamed of his past and wants to at least try to be a better person, despite how impossible it seems. And the sheer hell he goes through to save Camille is painful to watch.
• Magnificent Bastard: Duncan Vizla is "The Black Kaiser", one of the world's deadliest assassins, who is about to retire at age 50. With Mr. Blut plotting to kill Vizla for his pension, Vizla anticipates Blut's traps and counters them to killing off Blut's assassins. When Blut captures Vizla and Camille and tortures the Vizla for three days, Vizla exploits Blut's torture sessions to find a way to escape, before setting up his own ambush to kill off most of Blut's men and using his mere presence to scare off the remainder of Blut's forces before effortlessly dispatching Blut and rescuing Camille. When it's revealed that Vizla had killed Camille's family, Vizla accepts his fate as Camille tries to kill him, only for her to find herself unable to do so and instead works with him to find out who ordered Vizla to kill Camille's family.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • Johnny Knoxville appears for about two minutes in the opening as a former assassin who wakes up from a hangover so he can do coke, have sex with a girl whose name he can't remember, take viagra, and let out a Precision F-Strike which happens to be the movie's first line.
  • Richard Dreyfuss shows up in the middle of the movie as Porter, another retired hitman who sings karaoke and manages to subdue Vizla without resorting to an overt display of violence.
• The Woobie: Camille. She's just so sad and vulnerable and her backstory is rife with tragedy, making it especially distressing when she is put in danger.

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