The film stars Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Hudgens, Katheryn Winnick, and Matt Lucas.

It revolves around an aging assassin on the verge of retirement who becomes targeted by an employer wanting to cash in on his pension.

While coming home from stopping at the nearby town, Duncan finds Sindy broken down on the side of the road.

Alexei's girlfriend, Junkie Jane, while high on heroin, tells Duncan that "Plan B" was to kidnap Camille.

On the third day of torture, Blut breaks off the blade of his favorite knife on metal fragments inside Duncan's body.

Overnight, Duncan uses the broken blade to pick the locks on his shackles and, by morning, escapes the mansion, killing many of Blut's henchmen.

Duncan awakens one morning inside the cabin to find newspaper clippings of the murder of a family spread around Camille's bed.

Held at gunpoint by Camille, Duncan apologizes and tells her to close her mind and pull the trigger.

[3] In February 2018, Vanessa Hudgens, Katheryn Winnick and Matt Lucas joined the cast with Netflix onboard to distribute the film.

[citation needed] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 18% based on 50 reviews, with an average of 3.4/10.

The website's critical consensus reads, "An action thriller starring Mads Mikkelsen as the world's most dangerous assassin should be terrifically entertaining, but Polar proves it's possible to ruin anything if you try.

"[11] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 19 out of 100, based on reviews from 12 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike".

[12] In May 2022, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Åkerlund would return to direct another film adaptation, The Black Kaiser, which its producers said would not be "a sequel or a prequel".