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78 out of 118 people found the following comment useful :-
Does Boll pull it off? No. Did I laugh? Yes., 23 September 2007

Author: DAFTCOHO from United States

This is Uwe Boll's best film to date. That being said, it's still crap. Abundant plot holes, crudely forced shock tactics, a shallow attempt at satire, and the worst director in the entire world are just the tip of the iceberg on why this movie blows. I hate Boll's work. I hate his belligerence. He should not be allowed near a camera.

The ultimate question, however, is did I laugh? Yes. In spite of everything , I laughed. This movie is Uwe Boll's "F*^# you!" statement to the world. He's going to continue making movies whether we like it or not, and he's actually a lot better at crude humor than any sort of horror, adaptation or whatever random dung heap genre he sticks his nose into. He even makes fun of himself in this movie during a cameo between him and the actual creator of the postal franchise. For some weird reason, I respect that.

Zack Ward was fantastic, and really should be getting better work. This may be a rare time when an actors participation in a Boll film didn't herald their imminent career death. He proved himself to be an adequate action actor, and I'm hoping this gets him some publicity. The same cannot be said for Verne Troyer or Dave Foley, who are circling the drain. (I still laughed though.)

Is it worth the price of admission? Nope, but it's so much closer than any of Boll's films have ever been. Boll may be a deluded, stubborn and angry man,(at the Q&A he explained to us in a very serious tone, how postal was a gutsy, intelligent satire) and his work may be awful, but Boll genuinely loves films and wants to make them. He wants to get better and who knows? Maybe one day Boll will produce something worthwhile. Tasteless director John Waters invented Hairspray, which was thought to be impossible. Maybe Boll will one day harness his ambition towards film-making in a productive way. Or not. Who cares?

You shouldn't see postal if you have an option, but if you don't, you might giggle a few times, in spite of yourself. However, if you're a moron, you'll love it!

-Max

P.S: Boll has always clashed with wheelchair-bound "AintItCool" news leader, Harry Knowles. They don't get along at all. Why do I reference this? There is a mentally challenged character in the movie who begs for money from the seat of a motorized wheelchair. Can you guess his first name?

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140 out of 250 people found the following comment useful :-
An exercise in thrash movie-making - best video game adaptation ever, 22 July 2007

Author: SicariusIV from Canada

I saw the world premiere at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal. Seriously, this movie blows away anything ever done by Boll.

It's the most violent, disgusting, offensive, thrash movie I've ever seen. I give the movie 9 stars because it was exactly what Boll was intending, and it's a complete success. Go home Takashi Miike! To sum up, it's probably the best video game to movie adaptation ever made. It perfectly captured the spirit of the video game, and then added more, always more, to create such excess that you can't help but laugh during the whole thing.

People criticizing the movie because it's violent, disgusting and offensive shouldn't comment on it - they obviously missed the point.

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75 out of 134 people found the following comment useful :-
Uwe Boll returns to his roots, 10 August 2007

Author: roger-212 from United States

If we forget for a minute that this film was directed by Uwe Boll, the discussion of this film would be very different. It's hard not to remember other video games he's responsible for bringing to the screen ("Alone in the Dark," "Bloodrayne") that really really sucked.

Boll has said he looked inward to write about his own frustration with the world for this. And it's very different. It doesn't compare to his other films at all - is closer to "Kentucky Fried Movie" than to "Alien Vs. Predator." It's a comedy, presumably his first intentional one since his debut film 15 years ago, and it goes to a place he hasn't shown us before.

It's based on the spirit of the game "Postal" already politically incorrect, cartoony, out of control, and not really serious (not even as "Vice City"). In a post 9/11 world, how do you make a film about an urban terrorist who's just "p--ssed off" without addressing terrorism, racism, and everything else that are hot buttons in the world...that create the madness that might make someone go...well, you know.

Boll has channeled the politically incorrect attitude and turned it on its ear. He doesn't mind making everyone look the fool, do things they shouldn't for the wrong reasons, kill the wrong people, overreact, act out clichés, etc. Everything and everyone is fair game in this film, and we must remember that - it's a FILM. It's fake, folks. Everyone in it takes themselves too seriously and thinks killing someone solves their problems. They're crazy, wrong, and in this film, they're laughable. Having fun yet? This is really a kitchen-sink movie. Every possible joke, high and low, sexual or sociological, is jammed in, with varying degrees of success. A lot of it's quite funny, some is stupid and offensive (but weirdly, in a good-natured way. It's not mean-spirited at all.) Ultimately it's a lot of fun. I agree that's it's too long towards the end, if only because Boll didn't have the resources to make the final shootout as epic as it should have been, and it begins to feel cramped.

The portrayal of Osama bin Laden (by "soup Nazi" Larry Thomas) is inspired. Zack Ward and Dave Foley are both great and very comfortable in their roles. Uwe himself has a great no-punches-pulled cameo along with the original maker of the game "Postal" at one point.

I wonder if this will ever translate to a wide release or if it will remain something we see on DVD (unrated, we can only hope) and laugh over. It is up to us to support any film that gets to the uncomfortable part of our world.

And amazingly, Uwe Boll wrote and directed it. Good job. Not the best film in the world, but one to remember. I don't think Paul W.S. Anderson or Eli Roth (to pick other famous "hacks") could possibly have pulled something this off. Boll is off the worst-director-ever list after this.

Let's hope after "Bloodrayne 2" he does something else more personal.

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2 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
If it wouldn't be Boll, the mass would like it, 11 July 2008

Author: Hrutka Pal from Hungary

It's just one of those movies, that most people hate, without even seeing it. They say "Ahaha, it's from Uwe Boll. It sucks".

No, actually it doesn't suck at all. The whole movie has a horrible plot, overacting and bizarre scenes over and over. Well, it is actually the movie version of a very very bizarre game with no real plot and crazy citizens.

So if you haven't played the (fantastic) game, and you say this movie is rubbish, you haven't really got any right to say that. It really adaptates the game style and it's ideas. There is the lucky Ganesh, the cat silencer, the crazy chasing mob, the trailer park and so on. They even hired Verne Troyer, since Gary Coleman didn't want to join. So Boll actually really tried.

Sure, the movie has it's boring sequences and bad jokes, but overall you get many gags all over from beginning to the end. Most of them are just so awefully wrong, that it's frenetic. Even Uwe Boll made fun of himself, when he said, he is financing his movies by nazi gold, and he pays someone with gold-teeth.

To sum things up, I think this was a pretty nice movie, for the fans of the game, this has many references and gives a similar style of humor back.

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6 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :-
Funny as hell, 30 May 2008

Author: GMONKEY!!! from Canada

I don't understand the bad reviews of this film. People complaining about how its not true to the games have obviously never played Postal 2. This movie is probably closest video game adaptation that I have seen. It is completely true to the theme of the game.

I watched this film at the premier and actually had a chat with Uwe Boll before the film started. He came out right before the film and made a 10-15 speech that consisted mostly of him tirading about how Bush is an idiot and even more about how he hate all the reviewers that give him bad reviews. I think he must have self esteem issues to come off like that against the reviewers.

Anyways, this movie is very funny, if you're into this sort of movie. Obviously if you hate Uwe Boll or are totally politically correct or are easily offended, then don't watch this movie. For people like me that like dead baby jokes and are pretty much desensitized to everything, this is a gold mine of comedy.

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3 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :-
well, but no real postal feeling, 21 May 2008

Author: ffuubbuu from Germany

i have to say first: well done uwe boll, probably the best movie you've done in your career by far. the jokes are just too funny and i couldn't stop laughing, well done.

but there is no real postal feeling, because one thing is missing what postal is famous for: totally extreme violence. as i heard that there will be postal:the movie i thought: oh my god, this film will never be released in Germany. but as is saw it i was a little disappointed, because in the game the violent parts were the funniest. a little difference is the fact that it's more like a political satire in the style of southpark than postal:the movie. maybe there will be part 2 with more nonsense violence.

ps: i really hate violence in reality^^

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7 out of 15 people found the following comment useful :-
Crass, but genuinely funny movie, 20 April 2008

Author: (imdb-211)

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There's no way I can talk about Postal without first saying a word or two about Uwe Boll. Many people may not know who Boll is, but most hardcore gamers do (and probably most regular visitors to IMDb). Because he's the guy who has made a career out of making crappy movie adaptations for second-league game franchises. And I don't mean "crappy" as in "Silent Hill" crappy. I mean "crappy" as in "Ed Wood" crappy. His first movie adaption was "House of the Dead", based on the Sega game franchise by the same name. Now admittedly, this was your typical zombie slasher, and as far as zombie slashers go, it certainly wasn't the worst you could possibly watch. Still, it's a pretty bad movie.

But Boll actually managed to go downhill from there. His next piece was a movie based on the Alone in the Dark franchise. The movie sported an utterly incoherent plot, unbelievably bad acting, and abysmal special effects. Next up was Blood Rayne. The only good thing that can be said about that movie is that it features some nudity. He actually made a follow-up to that movie. In Blood Rayne 2, even the nudity was gone.

Now these are all bad movies. They all have bad scripts, bad camera work, bad special effects, bad cutting, bad pacing, bad acting, bad everything. The only objectively positive thing that can be said about these movies is that Boll generally manages to cast a surprising number of A-list actors.

There is, however, one other thing about these movies: They are entertaining. Now admittedly, they are entertaining in the same way that a train crash in slow motion is entertaining, but they are entertaining nevertheless. Even though the movies are objectively and obviously bad on every level, I still love to watch them.

Which brings me to Boll's two most recent oeuvres. Something strange is happening: Boll seems to be learning.

In the Name of the King is actually a reasonably good movie. As most Boll movies, it features an unbelievable cast. Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, John Rhys-Davies, Ron Perlman, Claire Forlani, Kristanna Loken, Mathew Lillard, Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds… I don't know just who Boll bribed to get these people to act in his movie, but it obviously worked.

But in addition to having great actors, the movie actually has a reasonably coherent script. There are still issues with pacing and camera work, but it's possible to follow the movie's plot and not constantly wonder just what drugs the writer was on when he managed to scribble it down. And there are some truly good special effects in this movie.

So In the Name of the King is an acceptable movie by Hollywood standards.

But not Postal. Postal is actually a genuinely great movie.

This is a movie the likes of which you have not seen in a long time. Remember The Naked Gun? Imagine a movie like The Naked Gun. Except it isn't afraid of making politically incorrect political statement. And except way, way more crass. This movie isn't pulling any punches.

The basic story is that a regular job-less loser gets mixed up in a plot by a bunch of Jihadists who are trying to release bird flu by giving children plush dolls which look like brown penises and have a TV show voiced by Verne Troyer. And it gets weirder from there. Basically, Boll pulls all registers, even appearing in the movie as himself, claiming that his flicks are financed by Nazi gold.

And it works.

Bolls inept directing skills (which aren't quite as inept anymore) actually don't hurt the movie. It's a comedy anyways, some strange cuts here and there just add to the movie.

--mild spoilers-- There's also a ton of gamer fan service. For example, Boll gets shot in the crotch, and the movie makes fun of "experts" who think games are to blame for violence. Vince Desi makes a guest appearance, too. --end of mild spoilers--

In the end, it's pretty much a no-holds-barred, politically incorrect two hour long episode of Southpark, except with real people.

Definitely worth watching.

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30 out of 62 people found the following comment useful :-
Knowingly dumb fun, 7 October 2007

Author: silvertig from Canada

After I saw Postal, I got a chance to see Uwe Boll himself in a Q&A session. He's actually pretty amusing in real life and I think he channeled that when writing Postal. This was the first movie of his I've ever seen and...

I actually had a lot of fun. Take a few friends with you when you go, and you'll probably leave in a good mood too. It's not without some flaws, it does stutter here and there and Mr Boll takes a few great jokes and doesn't quite build up and then punchline them properly, but there's enough hits here to make up for it. The cast is excellent (Dave Foley and Zach Ward steal the show but there are some great cameos). The VERY last shot of the movie is strangely beautiful. You'll have to see it to see what I mean.

In the end there's something very good-natured about how this movie with decapitations and explosions and suicide bombers and gunfights tries to make you laugh. It was happy to roll around in its own silliness and for that, I loved it.

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30 out of 62 people found the following comment useful :-
Easily the funniest film I have seen this year, 11 September 2007

Author: bowden_steve from United Kingdom

If you liked Team America you will love postal...

I had the pleasure of catching it at the Fright Fest film festival where it had the audience in hysterics; only a couple of people walked out! Boll has surpassed himself (admittedly that is quite easily done) with this witty satire that lampoons just about everybody and everything! Most of the jokes are in the worst possible taste and may offend some people, but that was the spirit of the game. From the introduction and Q&A session Uwe gave, it appears it was intension to make the movie as shocking as possible in order to jolt people out of the current comatose apathy towards the war on terror / world politics.

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2 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :-
Tacky even by Uwe Boll standards!!!, 25 May 2008

Author: andell (andell1@juno.com) from Toronto, Canada

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Oh man, you gotta hand it to Uwe Boll- with such a chronic display of a lack of talent, most Directors would have been buried long ago, yet he constantly proves that one man's (or perhaps every other man, and every woman as well) trash is another man's treasure. And he's done it yet again, this time with "Postal," a film so depraved, indifferent, and just plain bad that by comparison, it makes "Blood Rayne" look like an Oscar winner.

To understand what this movie is about, think of an amateurish rip off of "Pulp Fiction's" mixed story lines, and toss in more and more bizarre images. It begins with two terrorists arguing over the number of Virgins they will get for their act of terror- when they call Osama Bin Laden, they are dissatisfied with his answer, and decide to fly to the Bahamas...only to have the cockpit stormed and the pilots overpowered into the World Trade Center. Too soon? Just a little bit...even though its a given that some will enjoy the debate over the exact number of virgins each Islamic martyr gets.

In another stream, a young man leaves the trailer park to seek out a job, and winds up embroiled in a heist over missing toys that, for some peculiar reason, are the next major fad. In another, a cult that has been predicting the end of the world is looking for a way out of a tax hole. In another, Osama Bin Laden and his men are hanging out in the store room of a variety store. In another, for some reason, Verne Troyer is gang raped by a room full of monkey's.

Very bizarre and quite unpleasant! So tasteless it is pretty much anti-satirical! I miss "House of the Dead." Its sad when you have to think of that as the "good old days" of Uwe Boll.

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