Postal

2008 "Some comedies go too far... others start there."
4.5| 1h40m| R| en
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The story begins with a regular Joe who tries desperately to seek employment, but embarks on a violent rampage when he teams up with cult leader Uncle Dave. Their first act is to heist an amusement park, only to learn that the Taliban are planning the same heist as well. Chaos ensues, and now the Postal Dude must not only take on terrorists but also political figures.

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Boll Kino Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG

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HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.
PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
TheNuclearDom I am a big fan of the video game "Postal 2," and I thought this film was more faithful to its source material than other video game movies. There are lots of awful jokes and over-the-top action sequences. Honestly, that over-the-top action is one of my favorite aspects of the film. I'm not going to spoil anything, but there are some scenes towards the end of the movie that show some great action. Everybody has their preferences when it comes to action. Another thing I like about this movie is the music. Some of these songs are so catchy and memorable that I'll start humming them out of nowhere. The acting, for the most part, is very poor. However, Zack Ward and Dave Foley are pretty good. The other actors are bad, but I do like how there's cameos from both Uwe Boll, the film's controversial director, and Vince Desi, the creator of the Postal video games. There are DEFINITELY things about the movie that are terrible. For example, the plot gets way too complicated. This is where I get into some spoilers. Terrorists are trying to steal a flu serum that is contained inside penis-shaped "Krotchy" dolls (another reference to Postal 2), and want to spread it across the United States. Our main characters, Dave, Richie, and "Dude", are trying to stop these terrorists from spreading the disease. However, Richie informs them that their original plan was to get ahold of the virus and spread it across the ENTIRE PLANET. The whole reason this is the plan is because it was the "prophecy" written in a bible that DAVE WROTE. Why didn't he say anything? He doesn't even know anything about it. The plot is WAY too complicated, and has almost nothing to do with the Postal games. There are some moments in the film that I do find funny. There is a scene where a car explodes and is shot up into the air, then it lands on the crazy job interviewer from earlier in the film. I find that funny because it's so unexpected. Overall, Postal isn't the worst movie ever, but it's not good. There are some good aspects that ALMOST redeem it, but the ridiculously complicated plot, mostly terrible acting, cringy moments, and unnecessary scenes, such as the bank shooting make the movie worse than it should be. It is a good adaptation of Postal 2, with the main characters, terrorists, exaggerated action, and Krotchy dolls. That's my thoughts on Postal, I'd like to hear yours as well.
casarino I don't think I've ever seen a movie more desperate to slaughter sacred cows than "Postal." I wish that were enough to recommend it.Unfortunately, while there are a few good performances (Zack Ward is game, and Dave Foley survives by pretending he's in a different movie), it's disheartening and flat-out depressing to watch director Uwe Boll botch shot after shot with poorly-timed punchlines, bizarre editing, and an apparent lack of understanding of what humor even is. I wanted to like "Postal." This is Boll's shot at a Grand Guignol satire of everything he can think of, including terrorism, gun culture, rednecks, women, hippies, religion, cops, himself, and, of course, "political correctness." But the tone is too sunny and disposable to be "dark" - even though death and mayhem are everywhere, there's never a sense that anything's at stake. The jokes, such as they are, work better in theory than in execution, but even in theory they're mostly lazy and predictable (the idea that Bin Laden is hiding out in the USA and is BFF's with GWB is as clever as things get). It even fails to be subversive - even the "OMG they went there!" jokes are less offensive than annoying. You want to swat them like flies. And some scenes - like the job interview bit - are simply weird. They want to be satiric, I suppose, but their only target seems to be coherence and the filmmakers' familiarity with human behavior. The fault likes with Boll, who as director & co-writer demonstrates a Tommy Wiseau-like grasp of timing. Pointless bits of "comedy" (like the unemployment office carnage scene) carry on long after we've gotten the predictable joke. I enjoyed Chris Spencer's determination to improvise his way to a laugh (no dice, but he tried), and Troyer is heroically self-deprecating, so there's that. I even laughed out loud once, around the 40-minute mark, when our hero discovered an ingenious way to scale a fence - it was the first (and only) unexpected gag. But my joy was quickly demolished by the wretched performance of Chris Coppola, who counters Foley's insouciance by hysterically stomping any potential laughs deep into the ground. Coppola's idiotic overacting might have worked in a Lloyd Kaufman movie, but here it just serves to remind us that this is a live- action cartoon, and a bad one at that.Look, I'm a guy who loves inappropriate humor and the Tromiest of the Troma movies. And to his credit, Boll clearly enjoyed dreaming up ways to offend as many sensibilities as he could ("Vat kin ve do next? Ah, vat if ve killt all za children, ja?"), so there's that. His movie is definitely better than those unwatchable Friedberg-Seltzer piles of nonsense. Some bits might even earn a chuckle if they weren't so desperately thrown in your face (I hope Verne Troyer and JK Simmons made a looootta money). But while he has vision, and can apparently stretch a dollar - some of the set pieces are well-done - Boll just has no clue how to direct a scene, tell a story, or deliver a punchline. How sad that a movie so eager to please and offend is incapable of either.And yes, Uwe, I'll meet you in the ring, if we must. But I'd rather discuss "Airplane!" over beer and schnitzel.
shivam-hora This movie is total crap and unfunny . Not one scene brought even a smile on my face. I literally had to force myself to sit till the end, however i wasn't able to do so and had to bail out twenty minutes before it ended.I had been told that this movie was some-what like a spoof, like the 'Scary Movie' series(which i had enjoyed in parts) , but this film was absolute crap. And the only thing i laughed at was the scene where Uwe boll is interviewed, in that scene too, i laughed only at his dumbness and nothing else.Uwe boll has tried spinning quite a few nets of stories like terrorism, unemployment etc, but in this wrap of crap the movie ends up being full of numbing pain..I've never hated a movie so much , EVER. But Boll has made it happen.If you want to watch a movie very badly, and this is the only choice you have in the whole wide world, skip it..
Andrew Carroll Last week I had never heard of Postal, neither the movie nor game. A friend of mine asked if I have ever watched it, I said no. He told me "Dude, watch it....no...play Postal 2....then watch it" With an open mind I played the game. I wondered how I had never heard of this, the game was outlandish and crude...yet amazing because of its quality's. The game lets you play through each day of the week. I made it to Wednesday before I decided I had to watch the movie. I've watched a lot of game to film movies and this one caught my interest enough to write a review. This is one of the most accurate movies of a game I have ever seen. While watching this I really felt I was playing it. From the convenience store to the inclusion of the game developer himself, I really felt that the movie should be made into a game as well as vice-verse. Uwe Boll has done a tremendous job here that few directors can accomplish, make an audience feel like there playing a game. The Postal Dude's actions in the movie almost coincide with how I would act in the game. I see a lot of low reviews for this movie and I agree as a movie it is lacking certain...mannerisms that critics might look for,but as the first game to movie film I've seen that makes me feel like it is a game, I think Mr Boll achieved exactly what he set out to achieve. While most movie critics won't think to check out a game, I encourage people to play Postal 2, then watch this movie as people did with Resident Evil. You will see the little difference, and that to me, makes a great game to movie production. And remember Postal fans, it's only as violent as you make it!.