Polar Review: 3 Ups & 6 Downs

3. The AWFUL CGI

There's no better proof that Polar was made on the cheap than the absolutely atrocious visual effects throughout, which make themselves immediately apparent in an opening assassination sequence which features a slow-motion bullet speeding past a disgustingly rendered CGI bird.

Where the over-reliance on garish digital effects becomes truly frustrating, though, is during later shootouts where unconvincing CGI blood spurts are used to excessive effect.

Rather than compliment the movie's attempt at creating a heightened, comic book-y visual style, these effects just look hilariously cheap and lazy.

Seriously, Netflix, you raked in approximately $15 billion in revenue in 2018, and you're still trotting out movies with effects this embarrassingly low-rent? Not a good look.