Postal (2008)

I was extremely turned off from the movie at first mainly due to people calling a "terrible movie" and "The worst movie I've ever seen" on multiple occasions. Well after getting up the gumption to view this movie i was absolutely shocked by how much i loved it and how much it felt like something that almost belonged in the postal game series.All i really have to say is that if you like witty black humor or are a fan of the postal game series you will probably adore this film. Only problem with the experience was the occasional joke about video games which seem like an out of place forced way to reference the games.Overall i still give this film a ten out of ten

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.

I have never played the game Postal so my judgment is only on the merit of the movie. And it's truth to be told better than its reputation. The acting is if not good so at least fair. And the script is - for what it is - fairly tight.It could have been a pretty bad movie, had it not been so unpredictable (rape by a thousand monkeys..?). But instead of trying to follow and predict what was to happen next all I could do was relax the brain and accept whatever the director throw our way. In many ways a style that reminded me of The Naked Gun series or something from The Monty Python.Worth 92 minutes? Well, it's better than a lot of other movies, even if it's far from a masterpiece. It's OK I guess, so feel free to watch if you enjoy slightly weird pieces.

Uwe. You are not a good movie director but this movie is way to much fun. It is so politically incorrect that makes Salo seem sane. The reason that this movie is so good is that it is by far the most entertaining movie I have ever seen. It takes the insanity of Postal 2 and makes it into a genius pot-headed ride into insanity. It meta itself halfway through the movie and it does not care. Postal Dude is awesome and his transformation into a nut case is too great. The police brutality scenes are so weird that I can't help but love it. Postal Dude's uncle is the funniest dude I have seen in a movie since the dude. The G.W. Bush scene is offensive but still funny. No it isn't good but it is worth the watch. Trust me on this.