Postal
Postal
R | 23 May 2008 (USA)
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The story begins with a regular Joe who tries desperately to seek employment, but embarks on a violent rampage when he teams up with cult leader Uncle Dave. Their first act is to heist an amusement park, only to learn that the Taliban are planning the same heist as well. Chaos ensues, and now the Postal Dude must not only take on terrorists but also political figures.

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kosmasp

I'm not sure if it is a saying or if I'll be quoting it correctly if it is, but here goes: some of its parts are better than the sum of its parts! So I actually liked a couple of the sketches, but as a whole there were a bit too many moments that just didn't work. The humor generally speaking is just silly, so if you don't like that, you may as well stay away generally.The movie has a sick humor, which also may also work in its favor while you watch it or against it. It doesn't take any prisoners and Boll does make fun of himself. n the other hand sometimes you can't tell how much truth there is behind the jokes. Like when he repeats that some drivers of a specific nationality have to be shot on both his audio commentaries (entertaining to listen to, to a degree by the way), you do wonder where the joke ends and the his true nature/feelings start. He surely is one who likes to provoke (which is why the audio commentaries are always a hoot to listen to, if you are not too easily offended and have a general hate regarding his personality) ...

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gegen-wind

With his extreme skilled sense for social grievances he surgically exhumes the corps of the rotten society and bares it on the altar of a theatrum anatomicum for the audience. His tools are the blood dripping splatter effects as well as the pitch black sarcasm. He explains in every possible detail the many pieces of the socially constructed fallacies of this decayed carcass of human society and puts together all the interacting body parts. By these pictures, the audience is forced to assess its own construction of reality and - like the man character does - rudely wakes up from a nightmare. Boll shakes and wakes every one of us with his pictures and scenes and like impressionistic art it is up to us to either use this glimpse of wakefulness in order to evolve to Homo Zarathustra or to suppress the uncomfortable awareness by just whingeing about the corners and edges, Boll set up intentionally.

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Adam Peters

(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.

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Tom Willett (yonhope)

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.

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