How Mads Mikkelsen's Polar Reboot Can Avoid The First Movie's Failures
When the action flick Polar starring Mads Mikkelsen was released in 2019 it became a critical failure, but the upcoming reboot The Black Kaiser could fix the mistakes of the original. The adaptation of Victor Santos’ popular graphic novel was a critical failure despite Mikkelsen’s excellent performance and its incredibly immersive atmosphere. The new adaptation will again be directed by Jonas Åkerlund (director of Lords of Chaos and Horseman) and co-written by Mikkelsen, which means there may be new and improved concepts and ideas that could take the originally stagnant story further than before.
Polar follows the assassin known as The Black Kaiser, or Duncan Vizla (Mads Mikkelsen), on his slow-moving journey through retirement. Through a series of events inspired by greedy individuals in the same business, he's briefly forced out of his retirement to secure his fortune and safety. Along the way, he forms a connection with his new neighbor Camille (Vanessa Hudgens) and ends up discovering that he killed her family when she was young. Despite this, Camille decides not to take revenge on him and Polar ends with an amicable conclusion. The film as a whole, however, was not well received.
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Though Polar follows a cast of characters who retain clear intentions, the plot still manages to be fairly barren of content. The over-the-top villains and threadbare plot contributed to the original film’s downfall and avoiding those elements this time around may save Polar as a franchise-worthy property. As the reboot will be drawing more directly from the graphic novel, and is titled The Black Kaiser, it can be assumed that it will center more on The Black Kaiser and his
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