Postal (2008)

This is How Movies Should Be Made

Pretty Good

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Visionary film maker Uwe Boll's Postal is considered the greatest of all his works. Misunderstood and unfavorably viewed by some, it is indeed his sharpest piece of observation to date. It is a courageous motion picture that skilfully uses humor and satire to cut to the bone of the most significant issues of our times. Boll has no respect for the shabby conventions and euphemistic ridiculousness of world society and demands truth in every scene without exception. The cast is nothing less than superb and David Foley gives the performance of a lifetime in a part that is finally worthy of his exceptional gifts. Superficially, Postal is an outrageous comedy of thrills but look deeper and it's an uncompromising directorial statement that is totally unafraid and incredibly iconoclastic in intent. Uwe Boll is sometimes seen as an angry and erratic individual yet that inner anger is strategically used in this film with results that are purely devastating. tactically, the brilliant use of comedy to tear back the curtain and expose the dishonesty and lies which enslave us all is much more than an act of cinematic art. It is the initial step in a revolution, a cinema uprising meant to incite the audiences to express their own outrage without fear.

(3%) There's three type of people as far as Postal the video game is concerned. There's those that make up the majority who had a quick, cheap snigger at it back when it was first released years ago, then they quickly moved on and forgot all about it, those that thought it was the best thing ever for about a week (mostly 14 year old boys with anger issues) and then there's Uwe Boll, a man that clearly thought "Wow, this would make a fantastic movie project!". And as expected the movie itself is awful, plain and simple, but not only that it's also horrendously mean-spirited and unpleasant to a point of minor worry. Boll shows a mixture of blind confidence, with a burning desire to create ill made attention through the most base and flagrant manner possible. Although the fact is that everything here is handled so clumsily and wrong footed that all the offensive elements, for which there are many, don't amount to anything besides a disapproving tut and a quick wonder how anyone so clearly lacking any genuine comedic talent ever managed to direct a movie intended to be funny. It's a crass, lousy stinker from the mind of a man void of any sort of moral compass or understanding of how comedy works.

"Postal" is an interesting case study. Another movie by the infamous Uwe Boll, this movie is clearly bad on purpose. While his other movies have attempted to take themselves seriously, with "Postal," Boll has decided to embrace his title as the worst living director out there, and has deliberately made a terrible movie with elements to offend everyone and make them hate him on purpose. It even opens with a scene that makes fun of 9/11 and United 93. I'm so not kidding about that. Yes, Boll has officially become the Tony Clifton of film directors.And, I can't believe I'm saying this about an Uwe Boll film, but it's not as bad as I expected it to be. Don't get me wrong. It's still a terrible movie. But there's a certain charm to the self-deprecation Boll engages in (he actually appears as himself in the movie), and he does manage to capture the spirit of the game this movie is based on, which is itself terrible. In a way, it works to a point that I can't give the movie a bottom rating, although still a pretty low one. But it's interesting to see what happens when a filmmaker gives up on making "serious" movies and says "Screw it! People already think our movies are terrible. Let's see how bad of a movie we can actually make."Only recommended for people who want to see how bad a movie can be when it's bad on purpose.

A fine movie. Cats are funny. Remember when Laurel and Hardy tried to eat their hamburgers and when they would bite down, there was a meow? In this wonderful motion picture the cat is doing a walk on. A non speaking role. He is silent or maybe a silencer. You decide. One of the best movie scenes in recent memory.There is plenty of humor. Like the old advertisement for The Loved One, this special production has something to offend everyone. It takes a shot at everything, especially kids at a mall party.This movie also has some very excellent photographic visuals that had to be stretching the budget. There are some crane shots and chase and action scenes that are top notch. It is fun to watch the pedestrians being hit by cars. It is OK to laugh. It is just a movie. They probably faked the trailer park shootout with toy guns or something. It sure looks real.The acting is better than what wins at the pretentious awards shows where the actors pretend to applaud for their competition. Here everyone chews the scenery. Over the top in every possible manner including toilet humor with audio effects.Oh... the job interview too. And the man in the suitcase with a flashlight that is a... You will see.