The second half of the movie is a mess with only light humor and some audacious bits to liven up the mood.
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06/12/08
Postal (2008)
9 %
Reviews Counted: 34 Fresh: 3 Rotten:31 Average Rating: 3.1/10
Consensus:
An attempt at political satire that lacks any wit or relevance, Postal is nonetheless one of Uwe Boll's more successful films -- for what it's worth.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Theatrical Release: May 23, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: A religious charlatan (Foley), his mild mannered nephew (Ward) and a gang of bosomy commandos face off against Osama bin Laden and the Taliban in an epic battle that will determine the fate of the world in POSTAL, the latest film from controversial director Uwe Boll (“BloodRayne”). Boll... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Verne Troyer, Zack Ward, Dave Foley, Chris Coppola, Jackie Tohn
Director: Uwe Boll
Screenwriter: Uwe Boll
Producer: Uwe Boll, Daniel Clarke, Shawn Williamson
Composer: Jessica De Rooij
Screenwriter: Uwe Boll
Producer: Uwe Boll, Daniel Clarke, Shawn Williamson
Composer: Jessica De Rooij
Reviews
I guess you could call it a "satire," but it doesn't particularly care to take the time or energy to spin the satire in any meaningful way; it merely thunders over all its ideas like a rabid elephant.
06/05/08
If this movie had been made by an unknown young director, a lot of critics would still be panning the movie for its inconsistencies -- but many others would be praising his courage.
05/30/08
Top Critic
Boll's self-inflicted dose of Schadenfreude is the only sure shot in this miserable misfire of a satire, which aims for "campy," but hits "crappy" instead.
05/30/08
Is it funny? Not really, but it has isolated flashes of inspiration. Elsewhere, the film is a jumbled, needlessly violent mess, sloppily edited and feckless in its attempts at political satire.
05/29/08
Almost worth watching because it's so unbelievably abysmal that you can't believe any filmmaker, let alone one as hated as Dr. Boll, would deliberately make light of such subjects in order to shock and offend.
05/23/08
Fearlessness isn't inherently funny: Postal's touches of wit are lost in the flying body parts, gross-out gags, and the full frontal spectacle of Foley's no-longer-private parts.
05/23/08
Postal strikes me as marginally superior to Morgan Spurlock's merely boneheaded Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? But that's like saying Moe is smarter than Curly.
05/23/08
Top Critic
It's hard to imagine a worse movie will come out this year, and yet Boll's growing notoriety has already earned the trailer millions of hits on YouTube. Ed Wood never had it so good.
05/23/08
Top Critic
Postal is largely just a byproduct of Boll's self-promotion, rendering the film itself, in essence, beside the point.
05/23/08
Top Critic
In short, we have a trainwreck of a comedy that goes on far longer than you'd care to watch an actual trainwreck, trying too hard to be offensive the entire time and delivering its jokes with the timing of a 2-year-old with a mixing spoon and a soup-pot.
05/23/08
Infantile, irreverent and boorish to the max, Postal explodes with bad attitude and lousy filmmaking.
05/23/08
Top Critic
This reviewer is not easy to offend, but is very easy to bore. And I was bored out of my tree for most of Boll's lamely conceived, cliché-ridden debacle.
05/23/08
Top Critic
Indeed, Postal is THAT kind of movie, one that substitutes rancor for real wit, that utilizes splatter when a few script rewrites would have worked much better.
05/23/08
What's wrong with Postal can be summed up pretty easily - it's a comedy that's never once funny.
05/23/08
Imagine what "Catch-22" might have been like if it had been written by that creepy grade-school classmate of yours who was always talking about how cool it would be to stick a cherry bomb under that dead squirrel he found on the side of the road
05/22/08
How does Uwe Boll keep getting work? Seriously, this is not a rhetorical question -- someone, somewhere surely must know the answer.
05/22/08
Proves the director is the industry leader at accomplishing the exact opposite of what he intends.
05/22/08
It is funny at times and shows that even he has a sense of humor about himself. It's just a shame what direction he chose to take the film because I feel had he taken in seriously, instead of trying to shock us, he might have actual touched on something
05/22/08
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