Postal (2007)

Prepare yourself for the hilarious, laugh-packed comedy POSTAL, the irreverent and outrageous film based on the popular video game. After a clueless slacker named the Postal Dude (Zack Ward) loses his job, he joins his shady Uncle Dave (Dave Foley) and a bevy of big-breasted, scantily clad female cult followers in a scheme to steal a shipment of hot new toys. But first they must foil a band of ruthless terrorists led by none other than Osama Bin Laden and save the world from destruction in this offensive, mayhem-ridden laugh riot that threatens the very limits of common decency. Product Description

Movie is a nice romp, but add a classic game? Yes please!

The movie does throw some low blows and def. offensive humor... but this is Uwe Boll's BEST WORK in terms of hitting the mark of the game series. It's meant to offend!

The fact they add in Postal 2 for free when a simple search for it on Amazon 2 pops up the game being sold at a ridiculous price, it makes the purchase even sweeter.

Movie, entertained,... the game? Just keeps on giving!

Love it, 4 stars. August 30, 2008

Definately Uwe's best and a funny watch!

As one of the developer's of the POSTAL games series (I work at Running With Scissors), we were very worried about what Uwe would do with our license. He has clearly made some terrible TERRIBLE bombs...but his vision was to make a slapstick comedy and thats what he did. Clearly Uwe has no talent in the drama, horror or serious department...but now seeing his comedy vision (while its not GROUND breaking or amazing)it is definately funny and sometimes HILARIOUS. As I personally know Uwe he definately needs to be commended on making his best movie yet, too bad it didnt get the theatrical release it deserved (but In The Name of the King did....YUK)!

Thanks Uwe for making a funny movie based on our IP! August 28, 2008

Surprisingly Good Movie!

I was invited to preview Postal last October in Tucson, Arizona. Being over 60,and a mom, I really didn't expect to like this movie, but surprisingly my husband and I did! It was very funny. If you've been to see Tropic Thunder, you'll want to see this movie as it is heads above TT. Get it and enjoy it.... trust me, you'll like it and be surprised that you did!

Bennie August 27, 2008

Pretty awful with only a few moments.

First, despite seeing a number of Uwe's films, I'm not a Uwe fan or hater. I think that with anything, there is potential...but...there is a point where potential either gets used or abused.

So here is the thing:

Uwe tried to be too shocking at the expense of the humor of what was going on. The script needed work, just some tune-ups and some common sense things to make it a pretty funny movie, and especially funny if it was to piss people off. The first few minutes were traumatically funny, that's 'bout it...but let's be honest, this is not even a good B-Film.

There are scenes I think put in the movie just to be shock factor, and that's not necessarily a good thing. They seem out of place, seem to be making things *shocking* just for the fact of being shocking, and even then it seems forced. Uwe could have done a lot more, been much more funnier, and ultimately, a lot better movie if he would have edited it more, and went for the obvious humor than the unnecessary shock factor...it had shock factor already.

The scenes with Vern Troyer were very funny, the scenes with the sniper cat also funny, and the scenes with Bin Laden and Bush were also pretty good...it shows that maybe Uwe could make a better movie, a funnier movie, but chose to pepper the good with a lot of unnecessary bad. Did we need to see a full fronal nudity scene with Dave Foley?

Speaking of Dave, he is a funny guy, but he seems wasted as a talent here. Zach Snyder is dead on perfect for what he's doing, but that's it...the rest of the cast seems...drifting...at best, and in a comedy, you're either playing straight or your in the joke.

Again, was it the director or scriptwriter? I don't know...but the movie fails to live up to the humor it was promoting itself with. Did I completely hate the movie? No...it has moments, but those moments are few and far between, and the film feels cheap for not having more of them.

My two cents.
August 27, 2008

Boll hits a target. Misses a lot, but hits one, for what it's worth

The first twenty minutes of this movie was absolutely shocking: Uwe Boll was successfully making me laugh when he intended to. I was getting really worried, in fact, that he had finally found a way to make a somewhat successful movie. I mean, it wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible.

Well... then the rest of the movie played, and there's just no way to explain it: he drops the ball, miserably. It got so bad, at one point a friend who was watching it with me said, "Man, won't this movie ever end?!" and another friend pointed out that it had only been playing for an hour and fifteen minutes. This movie seemed to last an eternity!

What Boll is attempting here is to make a broad satire of the United States and general religiosity by pitting one man against The World: a cult, terrorists, random people on the street with guns, the government, the work force, and so on. He uses the title of a popular videogame but this time doesn't even pretend to make it an "adaptation," in fact deciding instead to only reference the videogame proper by having a character attack him on-screen for ruining the videogame (actually, this scene works out better than you'd think; the most surprising thing about this movie is that Boll actually shows he CAN laugh at himself, which was weird to behold), and a few mentions of the whole "do videogames create violence?" issue. That kind of stuff generally works out, for better or for worse, in this movie. All of the political stuff really doesn't. It's either very simplistic "Bush can't read" jokes, or long-winded speeches by characters meant to be ironic.

What Boll manages to make funny are some of the more random elements: moments of scatological humor, randomly killing a bunch of children, things made of various meats exploding... At the beginning, when it almost seems like there will be characters, it even seems to be going somewhere. But about a third of the way in, the movie just goes way off track, and at that point simply drags. Action scenes go on without end. An entire thing is made out of getting Verne Troyer (of Mini-Me fame) into the movie simply for a single gag. The locations themselves keep constantly changing, and Boll can't settle in a single place at all without finding some way to make characters run around for a while until they go back to where they came from. It gets VERY tiresome VERY quickly.

So as much as I was fearing, during the first act, that Boll would disappoint me counter-intuitively by actually being successful, his dependable ineptitude eventually won over and, once again, I treated myself to a feast of pure incompetence. Yet once again, it is worth noting that this movie is just that much better than the others, and so he still climbs the long, trudging ladder towards the day when he might actually figure what he's doing out.

And at least he proves he can laugh at himself. When all is said and done, a fresh statement is made about an Uwe Boll movie: it could have been worse.

--PolarisDiB August 27, 2008

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